Edward Norton Quotes

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

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• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

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• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

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• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

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• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

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• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

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• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

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• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

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• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

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• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

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• Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

  

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• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

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• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

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• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

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• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

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• The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

  

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• When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

  

  Edward Norton
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