Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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Actors are a race.
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
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I owe everything to France.