Tammy Duckworth Quotes
How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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You're not sick you're just in love.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
