Tammy Duckworth Quotes
I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.
Tammy Duckworth
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
Gabriel Luna
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson
We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
Octavia E. Butler
We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
Patricia Hewitt
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale
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.
Hanna Rosin
Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
Mahesh Babu
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
Natalie Jeremijenko
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
Valerie Bertinelli
I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life.
Kelly Marie Tran
As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
P. J. O'Rourke
I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.
Tammy Duckworth
