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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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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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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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.
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Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.
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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.
