Tammy Duckworth Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.
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I got into the race because I'm concerned for my children, and for the opportunities they don't have. Really, it's for the same concerns that the people of the 16th district have. They're concerned about jobs.
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The racism of the Nazis threatened to make whatever we had experienced look like child's play. If they could be so brutal to the Jews, what would they do to the blacks? So large numbers of black young men and women rallied to the defence of the empire.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
