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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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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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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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
