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Without Pain, There Would Be No Suffering, Without Suffering We Would Never Learn From Our Mistakes. To Make It Right, Pain And Suffering Is The Key To All Windows, Without It, There Is No Way Of Life.

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Without Pain, There Would

Angelina Jolie

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Without Pain, There Would Be No Suffering, Without Suffering We Would Never Learn From Our Mistakes. To Make It Right, Pain And Suffering Is The Key To All Windows, Without It, There Is No Way Of Life.

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I've Never Lived My Life In The Opinion Of Others. I Believe I'm A Good Person. I Believe I'm A Good Mom. But That's For My Kids To Decide, Not For The World.

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 Have So Many Children. Half Of Mine Are The Ones That Just Must Climb The Tree, Must Climb The Mountain, Must Get Dirty, Must Jump Off, Flip Into The Pool Sideways Because It's Just Who They Are. So You Try To Give Them As Much Guidance And Prepare Them But They Are Who They Are.

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’m Still Having Trouble Convincing Pax That Underwear And Pants Go Together – Underwear Is Not Pants!

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.

I’m Trying To Learn More About International Law To Understand Why We Don’t Have Better Solutions For Conflict - For Dictators Or Aggressors That Are Hurting Or Raping Children Or Using Them As Child Soldiers. Why Can’t We Have An International Community Handle These Things In A Swift, Efficient Manner?

When I Was Growing Up I Never Babysat. I Was Considered To 'punk Rock' To Be Trusted With Kids.

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've Realized That Being Happy Is A Choice. You Never Want To Rub Anybody The Wrong Way Or Not Be Fun To Be Around, But You Have To Be Happy. When I Get Logical And I Don't Trust My Instincts - Thats When I Get In Trouble.

I Never Thought I'd Have Children; I Never Thought I'd Be In Love, I Never Thought I'd Meet The Right Person. Having Come From A Broken Home - You Kind Of Accept That Certain Things Feel Like A Fairy Tale, And You Just Don't Look For Them.

We Need Policies For Long-term Security That Are Designed By Women, Focused On Women, Executed By Women Not At The Expense Of Men, Or Instead Of Men, But Alongside And With Men.

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.

I Went Through A Period When I Felt My Film Characters Were Having More Fun Than I Was. It Might Partly Explain Why I Ended Up Tattooed Or Doing Certain Extreme Things In My Life.

I'm At A Strange Place I Suppose In My Life. I Think That What Happens When You Lose A Parent, Where You Lose-you Drop Into A Different Kind Of Serious.

I've Realized That Being Happy Is A Choice.

It's Angering That Not Everybody Has Signed This Treaty To Ban Landmines. It's Disgusting, It Really Is, Because It Is Fact That (mines) Hurt A High Percentage Of Civilians. They're Not Effective In Any Other Real Way. They've Enough Weapons For War.

It's Getting Harder To Make Decisions To Work For The Sake Of Working. Like Everybody, I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply. Sometimes Something Like The Tourist Comes Up And It's Just Fun, But It's Not As Easy To Find Projects That I Have To Do. I Have To Be Home And I Have To Do Other Things, But I Don't Have To Work As Much.

I Don't Really Send Text Messages. I Rarely Carry My Phone. I Occasionally Check Messages At The End Of The Night, But I Don't Carry It Around.

Most Nights, Someone Ends Up In Our Bed. The Kids Do Knock Before Entering. We've At Least Got That Part Down Because Mommy And Daddy Need Some Space.

You'd Think, 'what If I Make A Mistake Today, I'll Regret It'. I Don’t Believe In Regret, I Feel Everything Leads Us To Where We Are And We Have To Just Jump Forward, Mean Well, Commit And Just See What Happens.

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.

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.

It Is Wonderful To Hear Of The Relief Efforts That Are Finally Coming To New Orleans And The Rest Of The Region, But As Well All Know, It Is Simply Not Going To Be Enough.

I Want To Raise My Kids, I Want To Get Them Through Their Teenage Years. ... I Do Love My Work With The Un And With Psvi So If I Can Do More Of That And Be More Effective I Will Do Whatever I Can.

There Doesn't Need To Be A God For Me.

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 Met This Amazing Person, And We Realized We Had Very Similar Views On How We Wanted To Live Our Lives. It’s Happened Quickly, With So Many Children. Yesterday, Picking Up The Kids From School, Brad Turned Around In The Car, And There Were Three Of Them. He Couldn’t Stop Laughing. We Love Them And Are Having A Great Time.

I Don't See Myself As Beautiful, Because I Can See A Lot Of Flaws. People Have Really Odd Opinions. They Tell Me I'm Skinny, As If That's Supposed To Make Me Happy.

Of Course {i'm Bisexual}. If I Fell In Love With A Woman Tomorrow, Would I Feel That It's Okay To Want To Kiss And Touch Her? If I Fell In Love With Her? Absolutely! Yes!

War Is So Complex; Human Nature Is So Complex. There's No Filmmaker Who Has Ever Figured It Out Perfectly.

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.

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