Natalie Portman Quotes
When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
