Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

Ingrid Betancourt

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• Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Give

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Women
  • Family
  • Nice

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Tomorrow

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Words
  • Mean
  • Where

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • World
  • Paper
  • Materials

• I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • Long
  • Talent

• If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Job

• If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pain
  • Deep
  • Regret

• The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Interest

• The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Mind
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive