Donna Edwards Quotes
We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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It's very nerve-wracking dressing someone because you obviously do everything you can to get them to be interested in something you've done, and then you hear they're wearing it, and then, obviously, they're going to step out in it, and you want to know that it's all going to work and what everybody's going to say about it.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.
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We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
