Tammy Duckworth Quotes
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner ... and will be used for future benefit.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
