Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're in a happy relationship.
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Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.
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A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.
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I've had lots of fans who come out and say, 'Listen, I can relate to Cyborg because I lost a limb,' or 'I have this cochlear implant.' It's one of those things when you actually start seeing it, when you actually start hearing about it, that made Cyborg more relevant to me than I think he ever had been up until that point.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
