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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real."

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Andy Garcia Actor, Director
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"I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on."

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Andre Benjamin Musician, Actor
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"Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word."

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Alan Ball Screenwriter, Director, Producer
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"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time."

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Alan Ball Screenwriter, Director, Producer
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"Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful."

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Adam Johnson Author
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"I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do."

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