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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.

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Angelina Jolie

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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.

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Working Together

Had A Great Time

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Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures. We Have A Responsibility To Be Aware Of Others And I Believe This Will Inspire The Individual Way Each Person Can Make Their Difference.

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When I Get Logical, And I Don't Trust My Instincts - That's When I Get In Trouble.

Every Day We Choose Who We Are By How We Define Ourselves.

Over 20 Million Children Of Conflict Are Out Of School. Education Is Often Forgotten.

And I Didn't Know What That Meant For A Long Time. It Was Only When I Began To Travel And Look And Live Beyond My Home That I Understand My Responsibility To Others.

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

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.

There Is So Much More To Understand.

Don't Fit In, Don't Sit Still, Don't Ever Try To Be Less Than What You Are...

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.

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 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...

I Eat Steamed Sea Bass And Vegetables, And I Have No Sugar, And Only Drink Soy Milk.

It's Great To Jump Into Things You're Not Sure Of And You Haven't Done And That Are A Little Scary. That's What We Have To Do, As Artists.

I Believe The Only People That Should Be Around A Child And Raising A Child Are People Who Absolutely, 100 Percent Love That Child

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 Think I'll Be Working A Lot Less As I Get Older

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

Violence Against Women And Lack Of Intervention And Man's Inhumanity To Man And This Kind Of Atrocities Are Going On. These Are Big Issues Of Our Times, We Must Speak About Them, We Must Learn How To Better Understand How These Things Happen So We Can Address Them.

Inhumanity To Man

What Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me.

I Suppose I'm Very Aware Of Time And Of Memories And Of Enjoying Life... Not Just Doing The Right Thing And Being A Useful Person, Which I Certainly Wanna Be And Believe That I Am. I Hold Onto My Family Really Tight And Try To Be As Good A Woman As I Can Be In My Life.

I Personally Feel Like, If You're Watching A Film About War, You Should Get A Sense Of What It's Really Like.

I Didn't Die Young. So I Am Very Lucky. There Are Other Artists And People That Didn't Survive Certain Things... People Can Imagine That I Did The Most Dangerous, And I Did The Worst... For Many Reasons, I Shouldn't Be Here.

It's Just Person After Person In Every Different Country That Has A Life That I Can’t Even Imagine And Has Gone Through Horror That I Can’t Even Imagine.

Usually All My Tattoos Came At Good Times. A Tattoo Is Something Permanent When You've Made A Self-discovery, Or Something You've Come To A Conclusion About.

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.

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 Wonder Why Guys Mistreat And Disrespect Girls. But Then They Expect Life To Hand Them A Good Woman When They're Older And Ready To Settle Down?

I Think It's Easier To Play When You Do Have A Balanced Home. I Think If I Did Have Alcoholism In My Personal Life, Or My Mother, Or Somebody Close To Me, It Might Have Been Much More Uncomfortable To Get In There.

People Will Always Say All Sorts Of Stuff. Let Them. I'm Enjoying My Life

On The Superficiality Of The Industry: We Are Setting An Example Of What We Think Is Beautiful And You Really Want To Put That Much Make Up On Me?

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.

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.

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