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.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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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.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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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.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
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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.
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I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.
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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.
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The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
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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.
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If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
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Always do what you're afraid to do.
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.
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I'm not interested in the idea of celebrity.
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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.
