Natalie Portman Quotes
I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.
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I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.
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I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.
