John Ortberg Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I have a great office.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
