Lindi Ortega Quotes
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
Quotes to Explore
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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Metaphysics is a science.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
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It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth.
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.
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It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.
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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
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I don't know that I would say abrasive. In some ways, I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day, and maybe I was insensitive considering the pressures and responsibilities of these jobs.
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We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
