Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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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.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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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.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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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.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
