Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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I have just come back from the internment camps of Europe where I looked on the survivors of the Nazi charnel houses. I was in Dachau and Belsen. I saw chambers where hundreds of Jews were throttled every day. They were brought naked, as if to bathe, and the Nazis would peer through peepholes and watch them writhing in their death agonies.
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We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
