Tammy Duckworth Quotes
I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
