Edward Norton Quotes
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
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Villains are fun to play.
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There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
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Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
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I have such a big mouth.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.
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The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
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It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.
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No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.
