Victoria Arlen Quotes
It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I am an adult, but a damaged one.
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A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
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Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.
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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
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It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different.
