Tammy Duckworth Quotes

When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.

Tammy Duckworth

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I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

John Cornwell

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The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

Michael C. Burgess

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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Tom Hanks

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I'm scared of a lot of things.

Rita Ora

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I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who had made it.

Rudolf Steiner

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I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

Didi Conn

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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

Deeyah Khan

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There's a green room at the Oscars. It's really small, very warm, and it's really fun because you get to see everyone just lounging on couches. It's right before you go out to present, so it's everyone in there. And then they have this crudite section, and cheeses and crackers.

Chrissy Teigen

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When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.

Christina Grimmie

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In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.

Brie Larson

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I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Anthony Doerr

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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

Astro Teller

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