Natalie Portman Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
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Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
