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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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I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
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I did a lot of fast talking as a youth I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.
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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
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