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I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Environmentalist
Film Actor
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Edward Harrison Norton
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The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
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I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
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The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.
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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.
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To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.
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When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
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