Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

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.

Ingrid Betancourt

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LifeControlWorldFreeYouDays

You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

Jim Rash

DieYouHeadJustYourPut

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

FamilyFreedomMoneyCoolGrowing Up

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

Robert J. Sawyer

FutureCuriousPeopleYouChanging

If we put a vinaigrette together, every part of it is weighed. For the burger, we do a bit of arugula, olive oil - everything is weighed. To the gram.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

TogetherBurgerOilEverythingOlive

Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the ones which were probably most based on reality. I prefer to be as real as possible, and there is so much of that story that you just can't make up.

Michael Hirst

ResearchStoryRealityYouPossible

'Top Gun' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

Stephen Colletti

Growing UpGunGrowingMoviesTop

Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.

Sidney Buchman

ResponsibilityAmericaTrueHollywood

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

Chris Pine

LifeResponsibilityThinkLanguage

'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.

Claire Denis

ChildhoodBeginningChildMeEnd

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

Bruce Greenwood

GreenProblemsMayDiscoverSome

This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me.

Mr. T

LifeMeMy LifeMeanHimHungry

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

Leon Panetta

IdeasGameThinkingDangerousGet

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