Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
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I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
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My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
