Tammy Duckworth Quotes

I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Tammy Duckworth

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In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

Jerry Cantrell

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Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

John Lewis

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New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.

Jeanine Pirro

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Doing things like 'Extras' and 'Little Britain' keeps me in with the youngsters.

Ronnie Corbett

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No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

Joseph Brodsky

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I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

Donald Glover

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

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From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

Prodigy

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When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Tim Robbins

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Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's a little bit of the problem.

Jurgen Klopp

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I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

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