Angelina Jolie Quotes
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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You don’t like me saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one generally doesn’t have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
