Mallory Ortberg Quotes
It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
Quotes to Explore
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.
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Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
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I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?"
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
