Tammy Duckworth Quotes
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or any of the frivolous things that go away in time.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
