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.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Become

• 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.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • You
  • Realize

• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Anyway

• 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.

  

  Florence King
  • Life
  • Women
  • American

• 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.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • American
  • History

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Live
  • Want
  • Myself

• I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Responsibility
  • Identity

• 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.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • School
  • Heart
  • Deep

• '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.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Game
  • Independent

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Period
  • Robert
  • SF

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • War

• I really think for the good of this world that, if I could have it my way, the whole world would be vegan and straightedge. So that's why I feel it's important to create an awareness of this lifestyle, create an awareness of the choices people make. To bring awareness about those lifestyles can bring a positive change, if only on the level of an individual.

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• It is not uncommon for highly agitating situations to show up right before a major breakthrough takes place in our lives. In fact, we can definitely prepare for a breakthrough when the enemy starts using agitation against us.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Situations
  • Prepare
  • Breakthrough

• Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Hell
  • Equal
  • Hierarchies

• In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Leave
  • Behind
  • Arrogance