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I Approached Unhcr Because I Believe In What The United Nations. I Believe Refugees Are The Most Vulnerable People In The World. They Are Affected By Everything, Including Landmines. They Are Vulnerable To Everything.

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I Approached Unhcr Because

Angelina Jolie

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I Approached Unhcr Because I Believe In What The United Nations. I Believe Refugees Are The Most Vulnerable People In The World. They Are Affected By Everything, Including Landmines. They Are Vulnerable To Everything.

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Nothing Would Mean Anything If I Didn't Live A Life Of Use To Others.

I'm Just Glad I Was Able To Return To Some Of That Innocence And Beauty I Had As A Child When I Started My Own Family, And My Children Brought Me Back Some Of That Spirit.

I Usually Make Up Stories For My Kids.i Like To Tell Them Stories And Make Up Any Kind Of Crazy To Involve Them In Characters. The Kind Of Fairytales I Don't Like Are The Ones With Happy Endings, Where There's Just Good And Evil And Things Are Perfect. I Think When There's A Good Story For Children It Has A Moral Tale, So That's What I Try To Teach My Kids.

The Interesting Thing For Me Is That Everybody Felt That I Was Really Wild When I Was Unbalanced And Desperate To Communicate Something And Didn't Have A Sense Of Purpose. But I've Never Been So Crazy And Wild As I Am With My Son Or As I Am Now.

It Is Not Enough To Defend Our Values At Home, In Our Newspapers And In Our Institutions. We Also Have To Defend Them In The Refugee Camps Of The Middle East, And The Ruined Ghost Towns Of Syria.

I Never Save Things And I Never Take Pictures. I Wanna Live In The Moment. I Don't Wanna Be Focusing On The Past.

Live In The Moment

I Am The Kind Of Person Who Doesn't Recognize Borders. I Don't Understand Why We Think It Is Okay To Keep Someone Within One Border When They Are Unable To Feed Their Family When They Could Be Getting Help Somewhere Else. I Don't See People As Different So I Don't Understand The Idea Of Borders In This World.

A Single Journey Can Change The Course Of A Life.

I Don't Think The Money People In Hollywood Have Ever Thought I Was Normal, But I Am Dedicated To My Work And That's What Counts.

Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Free.

The Center Of My Life Is My Kids, I Woke Up At 3 In The Morning With Four Kids With Jet Lag And Two Babies. I Put Myself Together For A Few Hours And Go Out. And Then I Go Home. This Is My Job.

I Used To Think I Was Unstable, Because I Had This Thirst For Something. I Could Never Figure Out What It Was. I Couldn’t Sleep At Night, And I Always Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. I Have A Window Tattooed, This Little Box, And It’s Because Wherever I Was, I Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. And, I Always Saw Myself, Wherever I Was In Life, Staring Out The Window.

I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

I Went Through What I Imagine Thousands Of Other Women Have Felt. I Told Myself To Stay Calm, To Be Strong, And That I Had No Reason To Think I Wouldn't Live To See My Children Grow Up And To Meet My Grandchildren.

If Being Sane Is Thinking There's Something Wrong With Being Different, I'd Rather Be Completely #$%^&^& Mental.

Being Different

We Cannot Close Ourselves Off To Information And Ignore The Fact That Millions Of People Are Out There Suffering. I Honestly Want To Help. I Don't Believe I Feel Differently From Other People. I Think We All Want Justice And Equality, A Chance For A Life With Meaning. All Of Us Would Like To Believe That If We Were In A Bad Situation Someone Would Help Us.

People Say That You're Going The Wrong Way When It's Simply A Way Of Your Own.

The Only Way To Have A Life Is To Commit To It Like Crazy.

I Removed The Window [tattoo] Because, While I Used To Spend All My Time Looking Out Through Windows Wishing To Be Outside, I Now Live There All The Time.

I Felt I Should Have Been Taught About The Landmine Problem. It Made Me Suddenly Realize Certain Things About The World And How Much I Had To Learn, Like The History Of The People.

I Felt Beautiful When I Was In Cambodia For Tomb Raider. I Was Sweaty, And My Hair Was Matted And All Over The Place. And I Was Happy And Hot And Accomplishing A Lot And Running Around, And I Could Feel My Heart Beating, And I Felt Beautiful.

I See Myself As Mom First. I'm So Lucky To Have That Role In Life. The World Can Like Me, Hate Me Or Fall Apart Around Me And At Least I Wake Up With My Kids And I'm Happy.

There Is No Shame In Being A Survivor Of Sexual Violence. The Shame Is On The Aggressor.

... The One That Has The Worst Effect For Me Was Pot. I Felt Silly And Giggly - I Hate Feeling Like That.

If I Didn't Have My Films As An Outlet For All The Different Sides Of Me, I Would Probably Be Locked Up.

Becoming A Parent Has Just Completely Changed Me, And Made Life So Beautiful And Given Me Such A Center And A Focus And Such Joy.

It's Been A Lifetime Ambition Of Mine To Play An 007 Villain.

It's Very Important That People Understand That For Refugees To Come Into The Usa Is Very Difficult. What Upsets Me About The Whole Situation Is That People Don't Know The Difference Between A Migrant And A Refugee; They Don't Have Respect For What People Are Coming From - The People Who Against It - And They Have Completely Forgotten This Is What Built Our Country, The Diversity. When It Is Put Forward That Masses Of People Are Dangerous, And The Actual Numbers And The Situation Are Proven To Be Completely The Opposite Of The Way They're Presented Publicly, It's Horrible.

I Don't See The Point Of Doing An Interview Unless You're Going To Share The Things You Learn In Life And The Mistakes You Make. So To Admit That I'm Extremely Human And Have Done Some Dark Things I Don't Think Makes Me Unusual Or Unusually Dark. I Think It Actually Is The Right Thing To Do, And I'd Like To Think It's The Nice Thing To Do.

I Dropped My Pants In A Tattoo Parlor In Amsterdam. I Woke Up In A Waterbed With This Funky-looking Dragon With A Blue Tongue On My Hip. I Realized I Made A Mistake, So A Few Months Later I Got A Cross To Cover It. When My Pants Hang Low, It Looks Like I'm Wearing A Dagger!

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

We Need To Be Open Minded To Understand That There Are Lots Of Different Levels Of Things Going On And We Shouldn't Be So Quick To Judge - And Certainly Not To Judge A Whole Race, A Whole Religion Or A Whole People - And A Lot Of That Is Going On.

The Great Thing About Having A Bunch Of Kids Is That They Just Remind You That You're The Person Who Takes Them To Go Poop. That's Who You Are!

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