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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
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Horsham
Victoria
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Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
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I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
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Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door
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Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.
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I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.
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The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them.
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You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
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I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
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I love body parts, especially hands.
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I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
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If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
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