Tammy Duckworth Quotes

I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.

Tammy Duckworth

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We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.

Jesse Kellerman

GreatJusticeInjusticeCrimeWrite

A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.

Jesse Livermore

SoulMeLossWrongForgetNever

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

SuccessYourselfMindHouseFirst

One returns to the place one came from.

Jean de La Fontaine

PlaceCameReturns

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Sri Chinmoy

LoveUniversePictureYouWillSee

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care about is making the music commercially appealing.

Shreya Ghoshal

WorkMusicFreedomCreativeCare

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Tori Amos

BusinessPeopleCareerMy OwnOwn

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Roland Joffe

ManSometimesStreetTryCountsHe

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

Mike Posner

GoodMusicPastThinkCandyRadio

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.

Michael Morpurgo

TruthGreatTrainingHappyTruth Is

My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.

Mickalene Thomas

MotherTimeDecisionBeyondHer

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

Michael Pryor

BestImaginationCreativeExercise

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