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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I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
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...only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
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I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.
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The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
