Angelina Jolie Quotes

I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.

Angelina Jolie

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

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• I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

  

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• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

  

  Gary Gygax
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• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

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  • Will
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• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
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  • Girl

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
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• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  

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  • Country
  • Serious
  • Generation

• Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

  

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  • Life
  • Effort
  • Balance

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

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• I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

  

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• People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.

  

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  • Soul

• I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

  

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  John Gardner
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Powerful

• I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Time
  • School