Tammy Duckworth
Related I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu... ALISTAIR OVEREEM ELLEN DEGENERES SALLY KELLERMAN LANCE BASS I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old sk... JASON LEE CARRIE FISHER I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoak... ROXANNE MCKEE CLAIRE DANES JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. WALTER ISAACSON I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an A... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve... EDAN LEPUCKI After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved... YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND CHARLES SCHWAB HELENA BONHAM CARTER I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around reg... LULU I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age,... SAM DONALDSON JULIUS ERVING DIANNA AGRON JAMES FRANCO MARCIA GAY HARDEN DREW BARRYMORE I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked... CASEY AFFLECK I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'... DYLAN O'BRIEN MATT GROENING PATTI SMITH LEA MICHELE I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B PETE TOWNSHEND ELLIOTT SMITH BRITT EKLAND OWAIN YEOMAN I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I w... KERRY GREENWOOD I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon busi... DON AMECHE JANET JACKSON RODNEY DANGERFIELD THOMAS KENEALLY Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pas... LISA BONET I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ... JESSICA PARE KEVIN HART I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w... AZITA GHANIZADA I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember... JUAN PABLO DI PACE BILL MONROE NAFISA JOSEPH I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, ... BALAJI SRINIVASAN Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang... SAMUEL BARNETT I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn... AARON SCHOCK When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS OLLY MURS BARBARA EHRENREICH SEANAN MCGUIRE I walked out of... was it 'Stardust?' That thing with the witches? I was so looking forward ... SHARLTO COPLEY When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of hi... ALEX RODRIGUEZ TREVOR NOAH I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I LL COOL J DWIGHT GOODEN My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN ERIC MCCORMACK I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quit... AIDAN GILLEN I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r... PAM FERRIS I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't ... LATANYA RICHARDSON I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind o... GURINDER CHADHA That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn'... GUY LAFLEUR PAUL THEROUX JOYCE MEYER KEITH HARING ALESSIA CARA SANAA LATHAN LAURYN HILL I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I d... DAVID GRANN BARBARA CORCORAN I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players... ROGER ANGELL I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Pa... TANIT PHOENIX I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing compan... SOLOMON BURKE MARY J. BLIGE I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with ... ERIC BRISTOW In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ... SPENCER KAYDEN I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for ... CHARLIE SIMPSON PAUL SAMUELSON KARA WALKER I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I do... MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY JILLIAN HERVEY BEN SCHNETZER HUNTER HAYES MICHAEL CHIKLIS BRIT MORIN STEVEN WRIGHT My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I wa... KENNY CHESNEY In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like... HAYDEN PANETTIERE DEBI MAZAR MARIE OSMOND BRUCE DICKINSON ANA DE ARMAS I can't believe we missed out on this my first three years, I want to do this again. BRIAN LEONARD When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... 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ELEANOR DUCKWORTH Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate i... ELEANOR DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH Access to treatment depends on access to information. KEN DUCKWORTH If you need heart surgery, you don't want a surgeon who only got a C in medical school. The same pri... KEN DUCKWORTH Getting help means getting access to information. When 40 states can't pass a pop quiz on providing ... KEN DUCKWORTH Treatment works, if you can get it, and if states get it right. Unfortunately, too many states are w... KEN DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH Voluntary national surveillance of blood poisoning (in England) caused by E. coli from 1994 to 2004 ... GEORGIA DUCKWORTH They came out and looked at the site. JASON DUCKWORTH We felt since we were the largest community park, it was only fitting we contribute to the municipal... JASON DUCKWORTH It'll definitely be under way this winter. JASON DUCKWORTH ANGELA DUCKWORTH Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. TAMMY WYNETTE Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. TAMMY WYNETTE Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin... TAMMY BRUCE Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off... TAMMY BRUCE For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be... TAMMY BRUCE Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur... TAMMY BRUCE Republicans have never been good at public relations. TAMMY BRUCE The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then ... TAMMY BRUCE From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the med... TAMMY BRUCE One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with... TAMMY BRUCE Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement. TAMMY BRUCE For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. TAMMY BRUCE The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ... TAMMY BRUCE One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. TAMMY BRUCE Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything ... TAMMY BRUCE As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I... TAMMY BRUCE The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th... TAMMY BRUCE The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in poli... TAMMY BRUCE Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give... TAMMY BRUCE When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract... TAMMY BRUCE Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes. TAMMY BRUCE Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the... TAMMY BRUCE My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctne... TAMMY BRUCE The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to be... TAMMY BRUCE I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations.... TAMMY BLANCHARD I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and i... TAMMY BLANCHARD My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though. TAMMY BLANCHARD I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There... TAMMY BLANCHARD I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most c... TAMMY BLANCHARD I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid. TAMMY BLANCHARD The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight... TAMMY BLANCHARD I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCa... TAMMY BLANCHARD I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jers... TAMMY BLANCHARD I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I ... TAMMY BLANCHARD The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, a... TAMMY BLANCHARD I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, ... TAMMY BLANCHARD I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work... TAMMY BLANCHARD Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little qui... TAMMY BLANCHARD I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in l... TAMMY BLANCHARD The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my ... TAMMY BLANCHARD I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospi... TAMMY BALDWIN I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at pers... TAMMY BALDWIN When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out. TAMMY BALDWIN I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologie... TAMMY BALDWIN Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents... TAMMY BALDWIN In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented o... TAMMY BALDWIN I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters. TAMMY BALDWIN Americans are not saving enough for retirement. TAMMY BALDWIN The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. TAMMY BALDWIN From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation. TAMMY BALDWIN It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. TAMMY BALDWIN Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is... TAMMY BALDWIN I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who ... TAMMY BALDWIN All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... becaus... TAMMY BALDWIN Sometimes I wish I weren't famous. TAMMY WYNETTE Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - a... TAMMY BRUCE In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the de... TAMMY BRUCE How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and... TAMMY BRUCE I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't giv... TAMMY WOOSTER That was my Norwegian grandmother's. TAMMY HARTY'S the original country music diva. TAMMY WYNETTE It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall. TAMMY WYNETTE Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi... TAMMY WYNETTE Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. TAMMY WYNETTE I flipped open my Nextel, went to Shane's number, dialed it, and Shane said, 'Hello?' TAMMY TOWNSEND It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next 24 to 48 hours. I think it'll be a big decision... TAMMY PETERS He fell on the triple axel and he missed a spin when he slipped - which he normally never does. Thos... TAMMY GAMBILL We literally stopped at 25 or more hotels and motels on the way up and couldn't find one room, ... W... TAMMY TOWNSEND We got out of New Orleans about 9:30 Saturday morning on a wing and a prayer. We had no plans other ... TAMMY TOWNSEND The next two days, gas prices went nuts. TAMMY BEARD And we're gonna put the pen in the box, and she loved lavender roses so we can put a rose petal in h... TAMMY KUBO I went to my car in the morning and it was on my windshield wiper with a nice note. He heard and wan... TAMMY KUBO We'd always be in the kitchen; it was a Saturday morning thing, just sitting there with a big bushel... TAMMY MOORE Your mind is your battleship through the storm of life's hardship where you can either lose control ... TAMMY MARTELL It's neat seeing the continuum of care. I'll pick someone up in the ambulance, then see them at the ... TAMMY SNOW I didn't think I would win. I'm excited. I don't know what to say. This has been a dream come true. ... TAMMY WOODS I wasn't really sure when the other keys weren't turning. But when mine turned, I was real, real hap... TAMMY WOODS I was pleased with our hitting today. I felt like that, with that amount of hits from us, and if our... TAMMY OLSON Brain dead. The brain and the body weren't working [together], and nothing was firing. I was very di... TAMMY OLSON CMA established the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, and it is truly our format's ultimate honor.... TAMMY GENOVESE It's $50 for a booth and they're still taking booths. TAMMY HUTCHESON We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment. TAMMY SMITH Everybody is just really appalled that an 8-year-old would be labeled, even if it's not going in his... TAMMY BARTH We've been welcomed by the old customers and we're welcoming lots of new customers. They like the ch... TAMMY MCINTYRE Sam was throwing fastballs up in the zone, so they were hitting fastballs all over the place. TAMMY OLSON You would be surprised at how quick a baby will crawl toward a photo of [his/her] mother. TAMMY ANDERSON It is going to be a really warm, cozy, home atmosphere. TAMMY ANDERSON
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