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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.

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Angelina Jolie

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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.

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I'm Not Going To Say How, Specifically, But I Will Continue To Speak Out About Human Rights And Freedoms. Absolutely. We Can Speak Out About What We Are Angry About, But The Most Important Thing Is To Try And Help People Understand The Reality And Not Be Blinded By Something That Is Not The Truth.

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To Actually Feel Like You've Done Something Good With Your Life And You're Useful To Others Is What I Was Always Wanting, And Was Always Looking For.

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I've Been Fortunate In That I've Been Able To Have That Balance As An Actress To Be Able To Do The Wild, Fun Action Movies And Also Be Allowed To Do The Dramas. Hopefully, If I'm Able To Keep That Balance, I'd Love To Always Try To Do Both.

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It's Hard To Be Clear About Who You Are When You Are Carrying Around A Bunch Of Baggage From The Past. I've Learned To Let Go And Move More Quickly Into The Next Place.

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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.

I'm Odd Looking. Sometimes I Think I Look Like A Funny Muppet.

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.

I'm Shy To Call Myself A Director Still. When Someone Says, 'what Do You Do For A Living?' I Don't Know If I've Earned That.

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.

Where Ever I Am I Always Find Myself Looking Out The Window Wishing I Was Somewhere Else.

Bigger And Better Things

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.

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

Being Different

The Money It Would Cost To Buy Another Car Could Be [used To] Build Two Schools. So It's An Easy Choice That Makes Me Very Happy.

The Older Ones Recently Saw Mr And Mrs Smith And I Think They Thought That Was The Funniest Thing They'd Ever Seen Because, Of Course, Watching Your Parents Fight As Spies Is Some Strange Sort Of Childhood Fantasy.

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.

You Know, More Children Die Under The Age Of Five When The Parents Are Not Educated.

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.

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.

The Coen Brothers Said Something That Helped Me, "when You Put The Book Down, You Have A Certain Feeling, A Certain Understanding. That's What They Need To Feel When They Walk Out Of The Theater. That's Your Job, To Literally Put This Book On Film, You Won't Make A Good Movie, You'll Do No Service To Anyone.

I Think We Should Try To Be Responsible And Educate Ourselves. I'm Simply Doing That And Traveling, Learning First Hand, And Seeing First Hand What's Going On.

The Truth Is I Love Being Alive. And I Love Feeling Free. So If I Can't Have Those Things Then I Feel Like A Caged Animal And I'd Rather Not Be In A Cage. I'd Rather Be Dead. And It's Real Simple. And I Think It's Not That Uncommon.

I Do Believe In The Old Saying 'what Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger.' Our Experiences, Good And Bad, Make Us Who We Are. By Overcoming Difficulties, We Gain Strength And Maturity.

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.

It's The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened In My Life, My Son.

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.

We Have A Choice About How We Take What Happens To Us In Our Life And Whether Or Not We Allow It To Turn Us. We Can Become Consumed By Hate And Darkness, Or We're Able To Regain Our Humanity Somehow, Or Come To Terms With Things And Learn Something About Ourselves.

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 Cry Secretly. I Don't Really Cry In Front Of Anybody. I Hate Crying. I Feel Like It's Not Accomplishing Anything. But When I Lost My Mother, I Cried, And I Cried Big.

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.

All Of Us Would Like To Believe That If We Were In A Bad Situation Someone Would Help Us.

Apart From My Children, Spending Time With Refugees Was The Greatest Gift... The Greatest Life Lesson I Could Ever Receive.

As A Director, I Hoped That I Was Able To Help The Actors By Giving Them The Space And The Respect They Need And The Trust. I Gave Them What I Always Felt I Needed When I Was Working.

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.

Artists Raise Their Kids Differently. We Communicate To The Point Where We Probably Annoy Our Children. We Have Art Around The House, We Have Books, We Go To Plays, We Talk. Our Focus Is Art And Painting And Dress-up And Singing. It's What We Love. So I Think You Can See How Artists In Some Way Raise Other Artists.

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.

That Just Sounds So Funny, A-list. Really, I'm A Mom, And That's How I'm Going To Be All My Life.

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

The Life Changing Moment For Me What The First Time I Went To A War Zone And That Was Sierra Leone. I Took Two Weeks, Eleven Years Ago And I Went. I Wasn't An Ambassador Or Anything I Just Asked To Go And I Was Allowed To Go. It Was Like Someone Smacked Me In The Face.

Our Family May Seem Extraordinary In Some Magazines Or Something, But At Home It's Not. We're Really Just A Very Loving Family. We're Very Close, And We Don't Read Magazines. We Just Kind Of Go To Work And Come Home. We Try To Keep A Sense Of Reality Into Their Lives. What's Truly Real, Not Hollywood Real.

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.

It's A Natural Thing For A Child To Lose A Parent. I Lost My Mom Too Young But It Happened. And I'm Happy She's Out Of Pain, 'cause I Love Her And She's My Friend.

I'm With A Man Who's Evolved Enough To Look At My Body And See It As More Beautiful Because Of The Journey It Has Taken.

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.

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