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We Need The Political Will, And That Often Comes From The Will Of The People. So If Celebrities Or Personalities Can Help To Educate The People - Not Influence Them, Not Tell Them (what To Do) - Just Tell Them The Truth About What's Happening And Let Them Form Their Own Opinion, That Will Strengthen Them And They Will Push Their Politicians.

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We Need The Political

Angelina Jolie

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We Need The Political Will, And That Often Comes From The Will Of The People. So If Celebrities Or Personalities Can Help To Educate The People - Not Influence Them, Not Tell Them (what To Do) - Just Tell Them The Truth About What's Happening And Let Them Form Their Own Opinion, That Will Strengthen Them And They Will Push Their Politicians.

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I Am Deeply Grateful To The Citizens Of Sarajevo And The Sarajevo Canton Assembly For Bestowing Upon Me This Incredible Honor Of Citizenship. I Am So Proud To Now Be A Part Of Such An Extraordinary Part Of The World And Fellow Citizen To The People I Deeply Love And Admire.

Figure Out Who You Are Separate From Your Family, And The Man Or Woman You're In A Relationship With. Find Who You Are In This World And What You Need To Feel Good Alone. I Think That's The Most Important Thing In Life. Find A Sense Of Self Because With That, You Can Do Anything Else.

Acting Is Not Pretending Or Lying. It's Finding A Side Of Yourself That's The Character And Ignoring Your Other Sides. And There's A Side Of Me That Wonders What's Wrong With Being Completely Honest.

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.

When Other Little Girls Wanted To Be Ballet Dancers I Kind Of Wanted To Be A Vampire.

And My Dad, You're A Great Actor But You're A Better Father.

Everyone Got Kind Of Crazy With Me Mentioning I Was In Love With A Woman.

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

All Women Do Have A Different Sense Of Sexuality, Or Sense Of Fun, Or Sense Of Like What's Sexy Or Cool Or Tough.

I Think It Is Funny That We Were Freer About Sexuality In The 4th Century B.c. It Is A Little Disconcerting.

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.

I Respect All Religions. What I Don't Respect Is When People Use Religion To Attack Others. I've Met People Across The World, In The Middle Of Nowhere, Who Are Just Trying To Survive And All They Have Is Religion. In Some Why, It Helps Them, And I Wouldn't Take It Away From Them. There Are Also People Who Use To To Hate And Kill. I Don't Consider Them Religious People.

Love Elevates. Love Is What You Live For.

Make Bold Choices And Make Mistakes. It's All Those Things That Add Up To The Person You Become.

I Wasn't Into Fairytales When I Was Little. I Was Of The Generation Of The Earlier Disney Films Where Many Of The Female Characters, With The Exception Of The Maleficent's, Were Not Little Girls That I Admired... The Little Princesses. They Weren't Characters That I Identified With. I Think That's Very Different Now For My Girls And More Recent Films.

The Most Upsetting Thing Is That The Us Is A Leader In The World, And If They Don't Sign, Then How Do You Expect To Convince Russian And China And Iran, Pakistan, All These Other Countries, To Sign? They Simply Won't. (the Us Government) Feels It's Against Their Constitutional Right To Bear Arms, Or They've Said That It's Needed In North And South Korea, On The Border. I Don't Think Any Of These Are Good Enough Excuses For The Damage.

I Love To Put On Lotion. Sometimes I'll Watch Tv And Go Into A Lotion Trance For An Hour. I Try To Find Brands That Don't Taste Bad In Case Anyone Wants To Taste Me.

My Kids Are From Different Countries, But There's An Understanding, You Don't Have To Like A Country Just Because You Were Born In It. You Need To Respect All Countries. And Be Very Open To Each Other's, Of Course.

To Be In Any Way A Positive Contribution, That's All Anybody Wants To Be. It's All I've Ever Wanted To Be. I Wanted To Be An Artist, Be A Mother. You Want To Feel That In Your Life You've Been Of Use, In Whatever Way That Comes Out.

I'd Like There To Be Less Refugees. I'd Like All Girls To Go To School. That's What We Need To Be Thinking About, And Working On Making Our Own Families Good And Strong And Our Own Kids Happy.

When I Was Little, Like Maleficent, I Was Told That I Was Different - And I Felt Out Of Place, And Too Loud, Too Full Of Fire, Never Good At Sitting Still, Never Good At Fitting In. And Then One Day I Realized Something, Something I Hope You All Realize. Different Is Good.

Because I Am A Bad Girl, People Always Automatically Think That I Am A Bad Girl. Or That I Carry A Dark Secret With Me Or That I'm Obsessed With Death. The Truth Is That I Am Probably The Least Morbid Person One Can Meet. If I Think More About Death Than Some Other People, It Is Probably Because I Love Life More Than They Do.

I'm Not Somebody That Thinks About Destiny And Fate, But I Don't Walk Away From It When Something Unfolds.

I Love Doing Action. And I Love Doing Dramatic Films, And I'd Never Really Been Able To Combine Them.

I'm Not A Single Mom With Two Jobs, Trying To Get By, Every Day. I Have Much More Support Than Most Women, Around This World, And I Have The Financial Means To Have A Home And Help With Care And Food.

When I First Went To Places Where People Were Suffering From War And Persecution, I Felt Ashamed Of My Feelings Of Sadness. I Could See More Possibilities In My Life.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures.

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.

I Learned A Lot From Clint [eastwood], Who's An Extremely Economic Director. I Learned A Lot From Michael Winterbottom, Who Really Gave A Lot Of Trust In The Actors And Allowed Them To Live In The Space Instead Of Trying To Manipulate And Make It Too Set And Too Staged. Working With [robert] De Niro Taught Me A Lot Of Being An Actors' Director And What That Is. I've Learned A Lot From Pretty Much Everybody. Hopefully I've Picked Up Something From Everybody I've Worked With.

When You Have Kids It's Nice To Have A Place Where They Can Always Return To And Some Place Where They Will Grow Up In, But I Never Had That. I'm Not Attached To Things And Places. I Like That We [the Family] Keep Moving. It's A Nomadic Life, And I Think That's A Great Life. I'm Excited When We Take Our Kids To A New Country And They Don't Just Immediately Look For The Comforts Of Home. They Blend Into That Country. Send Them To Any Place In The World And They Won't Be Scared. They'll Just Feel Like They Can Make Friends There.

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

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