Tammy Duckworth Quotes
Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
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I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
