Victoria Arlen Quotes
Being competitive is in my nature. I actually think being competitive saved my life. It's given me the constant drive to be better, and when I was in that hospital bed and that wheelchair, it made me want to get better.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.
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Being competitive is in my nature. I actually think being competitive saved my life. It's given me the constant drive to be better, and when I was in that hospital bed and that wheelchair, it made me want to get better.
