Mallory Ortberg Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Putin is willing to poison bodies in the free world, not only minds. Why would he do this? Why would he call attention to his murderous ways now? Well, I’ll turn that around and ask instead, why wouldn’t he? Dictators don’t ask 'Why,' they ask 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
