Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.
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I owe everything to France.
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I am not irresponsible.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.