Angelina Jolie Quotes
Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.
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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.
