Natalie Portman Quotes
I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
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We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
