Edward Norton Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.
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Money grants you freedom, I guess.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
