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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We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.
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My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
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How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?
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When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
