Íngrid Betancourt Quotes

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I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Íngrid Betancourt

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

Íngrid Betancourt

Q: I have read that you also, at least sometimes, had a chain around your neck, and you were tied to a tree?

Íngrid Betancourt

A: There were more women among the hostages, but the last four years of my captivity I was the only woman on the camp, so it was very difficult.

Íngrid Betancourt

A: There are things that I don't want to talk about.

Íngrid Betancourt

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Íngrid Betancourt

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Íngrid Betancourt

Íngrid Betancourt

Íngrid Betancourt

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Born: December 25, 1961 (age 64)

Bio: Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.

Known for:

The Blue Line (2016)
Letters to my mother (2008)
La Rage au Coeur (2001)
Sí sabía (1996)

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