Angelina Jolie Quotes
Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
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One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'
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Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.
