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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
World

"I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
World

"I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
World

"I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
World

"I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
World

"You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
World

"There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
World

"I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
World

"I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
World

"I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
World

"I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one"

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