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Colombian
-
Politician
Born:
December 25
, 1961
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
Ingrid Betancourt
Relationship
Time
You
Time Changes
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt
Life
Way
Acting
Details
In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
Ingrid Betancourt
Me
Faith
Understand
Jungle
I am not irresponsible.
Ingrid Betancourt
I Am
Irresponsible
Am
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
Ingrid Betancourt
Forgiveness
Mind
Want
Forgive
I don't want to be submerged by depression.
Ingrid Betancourt
Depression
Want
Submerged
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
Family
Me
Political
Want
I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
Ingrid Betancourt
Family
Me
Jungle
Carry
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
Ingrid Betancourt
Fear
You
Your
Say
I never say no to an ice cream.
Ingrid Betancourt
Never
Ice Cream
Say
Ice
Cream
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
Ingrid Betancourt
You
Yourself
Stop
Need
You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.
Ingrid Betancourt
You
Woman
Bag
Free
I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
Ingrid Betancourt
Death
Awareness
Years
Companion
I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
Ingrid Betancourt
Green
Party
Oxygen
Because
We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
Ingrid Betancourt
Attitude
Hate
Political
Always
I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
Ingrid Betancourt
President
Continue
Serve
Colombia
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt
Want
Number
Object
It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
Ingrid Betancourt
Easy
Things
Talk
About
I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
Ingrid Betancourt
Peace
Soul
Forget
My Soul
I love Colombia's military. I love my country.
Ingrid Betancourt
Love
Country
Military
Colombia
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
Ingrid Betancourt
God
Illusion
Only
Serving
When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
Ingrid Betancourt
You
Fate
Down
Your
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt
Smile
Love
Hope
Me
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
Ingrid Betancourt
I Am
Process
More
Survivor
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
Ingrid Betancourt
You
Arrogance
Behind
Your
France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
Ingrid Betancourt
Family
Heart
Home
You
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