Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
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I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.
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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
