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Tammy Duckworth Quotes

As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

Tammy Duckworth

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Life Risk Helicopter Soldiers Task

I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.

John Battelle

Think Brand Internet Strategy

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

John D. Rockefeller

Money Day Man Know Nothing More

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Solomon Ortiz

Challenge Growing Group Minority

I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version of 'Paint It Black' - that's probably the biggest stretch of anything that I've personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.

Tracy Lawrence

Music Opportunity Black Late Done

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

Tom Rath

Organization Thinking Doing Security

Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it.

Ruby Dee

Racism Mind Self-Confidence Body Get

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Lloyd Alexander

Friends Teachers Others Greatest

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

Education Past Ideas American Been

I saw my gender - and myself - as something of a construct. Like anyone who read one too many women studies' books in the 1990s, I aspired to both 'do' and undo my sex.

Alissa Quart

Women Myself Gender Sex Something

I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.

Wynton Marsalis

Yourself America You Afraid Being

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.

Sellapan Ramanathan

Hope Progress Opportunities Direction

It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.

Toby Keith

Hate Mind Me Doing You Phone