"True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be."

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Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

Portia de Rossi

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“I owe everything to this football. But I'm proud of what I've made of the opportunity to become a trainer.”

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“How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?”
“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”
“Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.”
“In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much alike that it's difficult to tell any difference among them. But I sometimes wonder if that has more to do with the quality of the art that's being made. There are always those composers who are going to move toward whatever is currently in fashion, there are others who will deliberately attempt to go in another direction. And sometimes, there are composers who will see themselves as being outside the stream and not even try to present their music to the general public.”

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“I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways Im a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate.”
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
“And if there's anyone out here tonight that doesn't feel beautiful enough, or doesn't feel worthy enought... You're wrong. Because you guys are all so incredible. And if you're dealing with any of the issues that I've dealt with, don't be afraid to speak up, because someone will be there for you. And if you think, you're alone, put on my music, because I'm going to be there for you”

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