Victoria Arlen Quotes
There's always going to be something positive that can come out of any negative situation.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.
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There's always going to be something positive that can come out of any negative situation.
