Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.
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Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.
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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
