Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.Ingrid Betancourt
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
Qandeel Baloch -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Dan O'Brien -
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
Garrett Hedlund -
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
Kat Dahlia
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
Zig Ziglar -
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving -
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
Karen Handel -
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
Naomi Watts
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn -
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde -
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor -
I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
Maluma -
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon -
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock
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If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Harry Dresden: It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
Jim Butcher -
When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.
Ariel Pink -
Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.
Kathryn Finney -
In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
Ingrid Betancourt