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.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Baby
  • Complete

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• 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.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• 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.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• 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?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• 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.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Poetry
  • Doubt
  • Lies

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • King

• In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

  

  George Strait
  • Music
  • Country
  • Lies

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand