Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
