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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Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background.
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The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.
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I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].
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Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.
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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.