Natalie Portman Quotes

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

Natalie Portman

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Book
  • Water

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Building
  • Supporter
  • PETA

• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Great
  • Win
  • Three

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Office
  • Higher

• Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Important
  • Success

• I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Think
  • Day

• I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Why
  • Crazy

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Give
  • Take

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Media
  • Content
  • Transform

• War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • War
  • Understand
  • Tomorrow

• I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Research
  • Finance

• There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Movies
  • Forgiving
  • I Want

• In Israel, death has no dominion over them With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one's donkey would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Death
  • Israel
  • Dominion

• Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Lying
  • Imagine
  • Canvas

• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Leader
  • Manager
  • Fraction

• To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Loss
  • Trading

• As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Born
  • Israel
  • Defending