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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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'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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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.
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I think whenever you're around Kanye, you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says.
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Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
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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.
