Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
-
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
-
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
-
I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
-
Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
-
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
-
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
-
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
-
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
-
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
-
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
-
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
-
The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
-
We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.
-
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
-
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
-
I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
-
The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
