Donna Edwards Quotes
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
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My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
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I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.
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I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
