Tammy Duckworth Quotes
When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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I was an expert horseman.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
