Portia de Rossi Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
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You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.
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It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'
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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
