Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
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'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.
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Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
