Angelina Jolie Quotes
We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.
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I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.
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There can be no activist judges from any political party.
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The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
