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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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
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I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
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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.
