Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Different films, different genres show the different things I do. It's nice because it brings different groups of people to following what I'm doing. So hopefully, it kind of reiterates that I'm not just a one-trick pony as well.
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I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.
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I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
