"I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address."

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

Ingrid Betancourt

#Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes #Justice Quotes

“As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.”

Source : Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin
“I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me... because so much of how I access character is through my body.”
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.”

Source : Kit Pearson (2007). “Awake And Dreaming”, p.18, Penguin Canada
“I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.”
“Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.”
“Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.”
“This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.”

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