Natalie Portman Quotes
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
