Angelina Jolie Quotes
I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I have over 35 tattoos.
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.
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I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.
