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 hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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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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Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.
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First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. Some girls feel good playing in long shorts, while some of them feel good playing in tighter shorts. I'm not against it. It's obvious that women have to explore that female side of things, and I don't think that's a mistake.
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Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
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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.
