"I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing."

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Source : "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

Ingrid Betancourt

#Mean Quotes #Done Quotes #Way Quotes

“One's ships come in over a calm sea.”
“I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.”
“I'm kind of new to Twitter. I'm about one year in, so I'm a little late to the party.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.”
“The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit about where I want to go, but of course I can't really know where I want to go, in advance. I know it when I see it.”
“I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”

Source : Catharine Esther Beecher, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1860). “An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible”, p.235
“She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Diary of a Provincial Lady”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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