Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

Ingrid Betancourt

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• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wine
  • Him

• After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Whatever

• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Exist

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Age
  • Difficult
  • Aging

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Influence

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Value
  • Knows

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Success
  • Revenge
  • Success Is

• I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Door

• I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Like

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  

  Man Ray
  • Imagination
  • Dreams
  • Drive

• Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Rose
  • Thorns

• Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Feels

• The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Problem
  • Fantasy
  • Thinking Person

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Problem
  • Belief
  • Dignity