Yvonne Orji Quotes

I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

Yvonne Orji

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• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Very
  • Been
  • Israel

• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Country
  • Love
  • Border

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Party
  • Friend

• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Lies
  • Public
  • Spoken

• It was intended as an earthly reflection of paradise not just for Mumtaz Mahal, but also for the visitors who would visit it over the years. In fact the larger Taj complex with its forecourt of the Jilaukhana complex and the surrounding bazar and caravanserai zone were meant to accommodate travelers.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Reflection
  • Paradise

• There’s already an evolution taking place inside of Cuba, a generational change. Many suggested that I come here and ask the people of Cuba to tear something down - but I’m appealing to the young people of Cuba who will lift something up, build something new.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up

• And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Lives
  • Knew

• Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • America
  • Fear

• Neil Cavuto a Fox News Senior Vice President (and anchor), I'm not the one using profanity on the air. I'm not the one interrupting the guest to show incredible rudeness on the air. I'm simply the one trying to answer your questions and make America a better place.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Trying
  • America
  • Air

• All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Memories

• A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

  

  James H. Douglas, Jr.
  • Good
  • Family
  • Home

• I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

  

  Jim Breyer
  • Work

• I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

  

  Yvonne Orji
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Influence