Daniel Mallory Ortberg Quotes

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1986

Topics

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I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Nail

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If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

Joanna Scott

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Music is my love.

Melissa Auf der Maur

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Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

John Shimkus

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Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.

John Paulson

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I'm extremely proud I'm an Asian female and I'm on television, because there aren't many of us.

Su-chin Pak

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It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Robert Teeter

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The Triple Crown, or any of that stuff, is not my focus. My focus is on winning. I just hope people can be happy with that.

Miguel Cabrera

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I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Michio Kaku

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A low budget is uncomfortable.

Lukas Haas

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At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.

Cornelia Parker

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I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.

Coy Bowles

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