Edward Norton Quotes

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Edward Norton

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• I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Winter
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Future
  • Look
  • Where

• I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Kids
  • Stress
  • Anxiety

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Money

• I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Success
  • Political

• And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Country
  • Boys
  • Here

• My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Family
  • Brother
  • Year

• Most inventions are based on some prior history.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • History
  • Most
  • Inventions

• Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Experience

• The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.

  

  John Adams
  • Growth

• I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

  

  Joan Allen

• JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Evil

• The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Listening

• My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Up
  • She
  • Growing

• Everybody when you propose and talk about putting your life together, the ultimate goal is the same. I think sometimes people forget your background and however you were raised. You want to have a different route to get to that goal.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California.

  

  Argus Hamilton
  • Governor
  • Steroids
  • Barry Bonds

• When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Time
  • Business
  • Job

• Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • World
  • Believe
  • Song

• When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

  

  Edward Norton