Angelina Jolie Quotes

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

Angelina Jolie

• Life
• Good
• Trying
• Kids
• Happy
• Perfect
• Evil
• Fairytale

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• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

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• As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

  

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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

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• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying