Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I am just one human being.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
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My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
