Tammy Duckworth Quotes

Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
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• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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  • Time
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• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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  • Together

• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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  • Son
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• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
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• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
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  • Enough

• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
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  • Great
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• In married life three is company and two none.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  

  Earl Warren
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• Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sacred and ministerial. To be called into the priesthood, as all of us are, is to be called to a life of presence, of kindness.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Life
  • God
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• I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Women
  • Control

• A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sea
  • Clear
  • Orients

• Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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