Angelina Jolie Quotes

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.

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• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Together
  • Team
  • Confidence

• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personally
  • Lean
  • Lyrically

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Funny
  • Tears

• Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Guy

• Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Often
  • Substance
  • Flash

• I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Star
  • Hair

• I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

  

  Christopher Heyerdahl
  • Player
  • Hockey

• We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Attitude

• I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

  

  Janice Dickinson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Father

• I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Amazing
  • Identity

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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