Tammy Duckworth Quotes
At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.
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The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
