Tammy Duckworth Quotes

Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.

Tammy Duckworth

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Today
  • Energy

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Were
  • Practices

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Never

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

  

  Becky G
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Problem

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Law
  • Police
  • Protect

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Boy

• The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Laws
  • Physics

• I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, but how well prepared are we for this? Have we thought how we will approach them? We need to start thinking about that.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Men
  • Cutting

• Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Country
  • Home