Tammy Duckworth Quotes
You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
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I like diner coffee.
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Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
