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.

Natalie Portman

• Guy
• Want
• Me
• Cute
• Pet

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

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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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• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

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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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• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

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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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• I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

  

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• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

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• I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.

  

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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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me