Tammy Duckworth Quotes

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.

Tammy Duckworth

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I'm really good at not getting sunburned because I wear zinc cream.

Jesse Spencer

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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

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It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles - just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter.

Michael J. Saylor

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Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Amy Winehouse

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Steve Earle

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The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

Rupert Friend

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To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave - to be in the same category as them is amazing.

Mo Farah

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I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them.

Lloyd Dorfman

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Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

Conor Oberst

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The fact is that the AR-15 is a good rifle.

Corey Stewart

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I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

Alice Waters

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