Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Day

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • States
  • Over

• Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dog

• 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.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Day

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Day
  • Myself

• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Time
  • Country
  • Problems

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • People
  • Time
  • Forever

• Spend all your time waitingFor that second chance,For a break that would make it OK.There's always some reasonTo feel not good enough;And it's hard at the end of the day.I need some distraction,Oh, beautiful release.Memory seeps through my veins.Let me be empty,Oh weightless and maybeI'll find some peace tonight.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

  

  Drew Curtis
  • People
  • Up

• Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Achievement
  • Birth
  • Minds

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity