Natalie Portman Quotes

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Natalie Portman

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• When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Myself

• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • True
  • Win

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Government
  • Tired
  • Media

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Responsibility
  • Security

• Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Together

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mirror

• Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Kiss

• I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Love
  • Maybe

• I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Place
  • Characters
  • Influences

• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Forever

• If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Polio-free world

• If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.

  

  Bill Moggridge
  • Relationship
  • Interest
  • Principle

• Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

  

  Mercedes Lackey
  • Support
  • Sometimes
  • Right

• Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Administration
  • Obama
  • Practicing

• Memewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Book
  • Language
  • Eye

• If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Laugh
  • Life is
  • Longer