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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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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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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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
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You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
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I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
