Portia de Rossi Quotes

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

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• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

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• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

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• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

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• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
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• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
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• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

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• God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.

  

  Walter Payton
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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

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• I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

  

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• I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

  

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• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

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• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

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• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

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• One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

  

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• Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

  

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• I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

  

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• To you your father should be as a god.

  

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• I have actually been very fortunate that I've met a lot of really wonderful straight men in my life - and a lot of really wonderful gay men in my life.

  

  Danielle Fishel
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• You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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• I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.

  

  Ben Thompson
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• I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Question
  • Gay