Tammy Duckworth Quotes

When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.

Tammy Duckworth

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DayWomanArmyRememberFirstRank

Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica.

Jill Tarter

LifeThriveIceEarthRocksSalt

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Jeffrey Tate

LifeLittleObserveRatherThanBit

Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

John Otto

SacrificeStepYouToo MuchBand

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

Amber Benson

MeNameSearchHelpAdmitOver

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

Romola Garai

LoveTheatreHeritageBoldGrumpy

I think that when we take the long view, the notion that some people are deemed less worthy of being able to move - to not have the right to cross borders - over time, that's going to seem as outmoded and as unfair, really, as racial discrimination or other kinds of discrimination.

Mohsin Hamid

TimePeopleThinkViewLongUnfair

I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

Constance Marie

HomeSleepEnergyEnoughClothesGo

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

Sean Astin

GreatnessNothingSpecialWatching

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

Tyga

MeFakePersonJustLikeHe

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Richard Pryor

JusticeI AmConstitutionEveryone

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

WorkDayI AmMeWritingEvery Day

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

Lynda Resnick

PeopleStupidThoughtYouLookSaid

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