Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?
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I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
