Tammy Duckworth Quotes

The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.

Tammy Duckworth

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It's OK to fail once in awhile.

John Gourley

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Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.

Andrew Rannells

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Misquoting drives me bananas.

Anderson Cooper

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Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

John Ortberg

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I love vinyl, man.

Amos Lee

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In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

Stuart Wilde

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We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Roger Wilkins

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I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

Michael Pena

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Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

Judith Tarr

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Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Josh Homme

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I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.

Christy Turlington

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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Anton Chekhov

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