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.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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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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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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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.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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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.
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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.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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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!
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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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.
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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.
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God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
