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.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• 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.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• 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.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Better
  • Version

• 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.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Real
  • Character
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Crazy
  • Very
  • WIld

• 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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• 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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Me
  • Broken
  • Down

• My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Life
  • Art
  • Procrastination

• Since his election, President Trump has made clear that he and his administration will be focusing on ensuring that the government is a smart buyer, getting the most for the taxpayer's dollar.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Smart
  • Trump

• I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

  

  Kanye West
  • Remember
  • Lost

• My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • People
  • Society