Tammy Duckworth Quotes
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
