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If Every Choice You Make Comes From An Honest Place, You’re Solid And Nothing Anybody Can Say About You Can Rock You Or Change Your Opinion. It Doesn’t Shake Me Because I Know Why I Do The Things I Do And I Know I Come From A Good Place And So People Can Judge Me However They Wish. But I Know I’ll Continue To Do The Best I Can And Be The Best I Can.

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If Every Choice You

Angelina Jolie

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If Every Choice You Make Comes From An Honest Place, You’re Solid And Nothing Anybody Can Say About You Can Rock You Or Change Your Opinion. It Doesn’t Shake Me Because I Know Why I Do The Things I Do And I Know I Come From A Good Place And So People Can Judge Me However They Wish. But I Know I’ll Continue To Do The Best I Can And Be The Best I Can.

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Lots Of Friends

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Inhumanity To Man

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To Each His Own. It's One Of Those Things. How You Build Your Familyyou Have To Know What You're Capable Of Handling And How Your Children Will Relate To Each Other. Maybe If You Have One Child And That Child Has A Lot Of Needs, You Realize You Cannot Give More Attention To Another. Sometimes You Just Know As A Parent. We Felt We Could Handle More Children, And We Have A Very Happy, Very Full Home.

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

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Imperfect Person

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People Have Two Sides, A Good Side And A Bad Side, A Past, A Future. We Must Embrace Both In Someone We Love.

I Don't Believe In Guilt, I Believe In Living On Impulse As Long As You Never Intentionally Hurt Another Person, And Don't Judge People In Your Life. I Think You Should Live Completely Free.

I Think As A Human Being, As A Mother, As Someone Who Works Internationally, I Needed Desperately To Know A Man Like Louis Zamperini In My Life, To Know That There Is Hope.

The Mind Wants To Forget Because It Weighs So Much On The Heart And Soul. I Am Tired Of Crying And Feeling So Helpless. I Want To Breathe Again -just For A Little While.

To Be Intimate With A Married Man, When My Own Father Cheated On My Mother, Is Not Something I Could Forgive. I Could Not Look At Myself In The Morning If I Did That. I Wouldn't Be Attracted To A Man Who Would Cheat On His Wife.

If You Have Problems, It's Something To Apologize For, To Be Embarrassed About, Not To Revel In. It's The Perfectionist In Me...that's Why People Call Me The "bossy Little Thing"-i'm The Bossiest Person Around.

Violence Against Women Is Still Treated As A Lesser Crime. Armed Groups Turn It Into A Weapon Of Choice Because Of Near Total Impunity.

I'm A Fairy. I'd Come And Hear, "how Was Your Day, Honey?" And I'd Be Like, "i Was A Fairy. I Don't Know."

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.

I Think The Global Community Always Has A ... Has A Responsibility To Any Humanitarian Crisis. And I Think It's In Our Best Interest To Address A Humanitarian Crisis On This Scale Because Displacement Can Can Lead To A Lot Of Instability And Aggression.

I 've Been Married So Much In My Life That I Never Really Had Lovers, So It's Been A Fun Time. Hopefully The Men Are Enjoying It As Well.

If You Don't Get Out Of The Box You've Been Raised In, You Won't Understand How Much Bigger The World Is. You Might Never Find Out That You Are Useful For All The Right Reasons - And Not All Those Stupid Things That People Tell You You're Useful For.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

I Never Felt Settled Or Calm. You Can't Really Commit To Life When You Feel That.

By Remembering That I Don't Know Sadness Or Pain Like The People Do In The Camp And To Be Sad Will Not Help Them.

With Doing The Movies I've Done I Don't Think I Would Be Half The Person I Am Today.

I Want To Be Outspoken! I Want To Say My Opinions And I Hope They’re Taken In The Right Way. I Don’t Want To Stop Being Free ... And I Won’t...

They're Right To Think That About Me, Because I'm The Person Most Likely To Sleep With My Female Fans, I Genuinely Love Other Women. And I Think They Know That.

I've Had A Wonderful Career And I'm Very Happy To Have Had All Of The Opportunities That I've Had To Tell Stories And Work For As Long As I Have. I'm Sure There'll Be A Few More Films But I'm Happy That I'm Able To Be Selective.

The Loss Of A Child Is My Greatest Nightmare.

Loss Of A Child

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.

I'm Somebody Who Works Within Cambodia, With Cambodians. I Work Alongside The Artists And Society To Work From Within, So That Is The Focus, And From That I Hope Everybody Who Believes In Democracy, In Certain Freedoms, Will Get Louder, Will Grow Their Voices.

My Role As Goodwill Ambassador Has Made My Work As A Film Star Relatively Dull. I Can`t Find Anything That Interests Me Enough To Go Back To Work. I`m Simply Not Excited About Anything. I`m Not Excited About Going To A Film Set.

There Is So Much More To Understand.

Arabs And Mulims Are Not Terrorists.the World Should Unite Against Israel.

I Have Men In My Life. I Have A Brother. So Maddox Will Have Male Teachers. I Was Raised Without A Father.

We're All Just Big Kids. That's All We Are. We Are Artistes. We Grew Up Wanting To Be Part Of The Fantasy Of The Fairy Tales And The Stories.

The Fact Is I Am Not Having Sex. But I Feel Absolutely Ripe For The, What Would You Say? Plucking?

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 Do Have Tatoos, And I Do Wear Leather, But There Are Other Sides Of Me, That My Film Express.

Now They Can Do All These Magic Things With Computers. So You Think You Get To Do Something In A Movie And You Find Out You Don't Get To Really Do It.

We Cannot Look At Syria, And The Evil That Has Arisen From The Ashes Of Indecision, And Think This Is Not The Lowest Point In The World's Inability To Protect And Defend The Innocent.

I Like To Hide Behind The Characters I Play. Despite The Public Perception, I Am A Very Private Person Who Has A Hard Time With The Fame Thing.

It's Probably Not An Accident That The Films That I Care About Happen To Be About Issues That Matter To Me, Stories That I Want To Tell. If You're Going To Spend Two Years Of Your Life On Something It Has To Matter To You, You Have To Be Passionate About It.

An Off-screen Persona Of Globally Conscious Earth Mother And An Aggressive On-screen Embodiment Of Kali, Goddess Of Destruction.

I Would Start Drinking Something Terrible If I Were In A Situation Where I Was Surrounded By Lies Or Quiet Or Secrets. It's Just Not A Real Life.

To Be Put Simply Refugees Are Us. And Their Mothers Are Like Us, They Love Their Children The Same, They Laugh, They Dream, And They Are Survivors, They Are Amazing.

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