Natalie Portman
Israeli-born American actor and filmmaker who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Black Swan in 2011.
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Their wordsLike many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation,
↗Natalie Portman: I'm skipping Israeli ceremony due to Netanyahu speech (Ynetnews, 21 April 2018, printing her Instagram statement on the Genesis Prize)ynetnews.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut the mistreatment of those suffering from today's atrocities is simply not in line with my Jewish values. Because I care about Israel, I must stand up against violence, corruption, inequality, and abuse of power.
↗Natalie Portman: I'm skipping Israeli ceremony due to Netanyahu speech (Ynetnews, 21 April 2018, printing her Instagram statement on the Genesis Prize)ynetnews.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsThe response to my expression, from small comments about my body to more threatening deliberate statements, served to control my behavior through an environment of sexual terrorism.
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsI realized that seriousness for seriousness’ sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was.
↗Portman: I, too, battled self-doubt (Harvard Gazette, 27 May 2015, quoting her Harvard College Class Day address)news.harvard.edu 1st of 3 in this piece
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Inexperience can be harnessed to carve out a path of your own, free of how things are supposed to be
Their wordsBut you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.
↗Portman: I, too, battled self-doubt (Harvard Gazette, 27 May 2015, quoting her Harvard College Class Day address)news.harvard.edu 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAchievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap,
↗Portman: I, too, battled self-doubt (Harvard Gazette, 27 May 2015, quoting her Harvard College Class Day address)news.harvard.edu 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 years earlier
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Their wordsPerhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities, but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable, and the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling.
↗Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)huffpost.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe human cost of factory farming -- both the compromised welfare of slaughterhouse workers and, even more, the environmental effects of the mass production of animals -- is staggering.
↗Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)huffpost.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsFactory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age.
↗Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)huffpost.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 8 years earlier
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Their wordsIsraelis and Arabs are historically cousins. Until we accept the fact that we are constituents of the same family, we will blunder in believing that a loss for one “side”—or, as Chaudhry names it, a “color”—is not a loss for all human kind.
↗Israeli Diversity Shown Even Among Leaders (letter to the editor, The Harvard Crimson, 17 April 2002)thecrimson.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWe must be ashamed of every act of violence and mourn every child as if they were our own.
↗Israeli Diversity Shown Even Among Leaders (letter to the editor, The Harvard Crimson, 17 April 2002)thecrimson.com 2nd of 2 in this piece