Mallory Ortberg Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
Yigal Azrouël -
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking -
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
Jack Ma -
'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
Viktor Orban -
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor -
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
Zendaya -
I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
A. J. Cook -
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Quincy Jones -
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
Taran Killam -
I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
Dan Hicks -
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
Larry J. Sabato -
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba -
It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
Kapil Dev -
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.
H. G. Wells
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It was getting to be the end of the day. The sun was somehow setting again. A man could stand in the street and tell a perfect stranger a story of such incomprehensible evil that it really seemed as if the sun should stop shining altogether. But there was no alteration in Heaven, no sign that the cries of children had been heard.
Edith Hahn Beer -
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.
Faith Popcorn -
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
Victor Hugo -
it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.
Cynthia Heimel -
When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.
Mallory Ortberg