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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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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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.
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I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.
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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.
