Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.Ingrid Betancourt
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
Dan Fogelman -
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May -
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
Ian Fleming -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
Tea Obreht -
I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson -
We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
Quavo Migos -
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Immanuel Velikovsky -
Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
Karl Rove -
Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
Ed O'Neill -
More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
Gary Bauer
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
Manfred von Richthofen -
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
Ted Lindsay -
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim -
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba -
I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
Octavia Spencer -
There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
Jeff Greenfield
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The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.
Patrick Henry -
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith -
You guys are the best. I'll see you in a couple of hours. I haven't seen another human being in 13 hours and I'm running out of bottles for my urine. Later guys!
Chris Kattan -
This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.
Christine Flores -
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt