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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

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

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Winter
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Children
  • Art
  • May

• 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

• Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Unity

• 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

• It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Love
  • Discipline
  • Fine

• Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

  

  Bai Ling
  • World
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Lonely

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friends
  • Should
  • Behave

• 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