Victoria Arlen Quotes

I come from a family of go-getters.

Victoria Arlen

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FamilyCome

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

Jenny Zhang

MyselfThoughtFirstFiveJust

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Sophie Kinsella

LifeMusicCollegeMy LifeDoneGot

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

Steve Wozniak

GoodGood ThingsWishAppleStop

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Townsend Harris

GoCaliforniaDaysEighteenSteam

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

Tom Vilsack

BestYearsHighSawHitRecord

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Martin Scorsese

MotherFoodRestaurantYouGoWhy

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Dick Gregory

WorkDanceLawBlackStandYou

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

Derek Walcott

WorkCarePersonJust OneJustWho

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Chrisette Michele

LoveFriendMyselfBestBest Friend

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

Chris Zylka

LifeGoodFunBadPlayPersonal

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

Alfred Marshall

CharacterMeetClassFirstSatisfied

It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.

Peter Thiel

PeaceDeathFightPeopleStand Up

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