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Tammy Duckworth Quotes

I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.

Tammy Duckworth

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Daughter Man Proud American Up Grew

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

Listening Limits Artist Want Up He

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Child Learn Know Will First Need

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Children Soul Medical Body Know

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

People Thought End Know Anything

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

Teachers Need Buy Absurd Books Kids

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Football Yourself Start Chance Think

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Dianne Feinstein

Courage Service People Chance Rights

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

Money Travel Small Thought Military

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.

Time Childhood People Parent Gay

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

Women Community Men People City Up

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

People Transformation Rich Become

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

Shigeru Miyamoto

View Point Of View Person Others Saw

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