Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

Ingrid Betancourt

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The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.

Jessica Valenti

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Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

John Ridley

CultureEntertainmentClassFresh

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

Romola Garai

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I think I'm gonna wear Timberlands until I die, man. They may not be the hottest thing out, but Timbs keep reinventing themselves.

DMX

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Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What's true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you - everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.

Debbie Reynolds

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Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

Christopher Hitchens

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I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

Coco Rocha

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When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.

Brendan Iribe

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Make no mistake: Republican tax cuts for the rich will bankrupt our country - and it's the grandkids of the middle class who will have to pay it back. This is wrong.

Seth Moulton

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We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

Twinkle Khanna

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