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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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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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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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
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I don't think in a linear form.
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
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If Providence had not guided us I would often never have found these dizzy paths. Thus, it is that we National Socialists have in the depths of our hearts our faith. No man can fashion world history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessing of this Providence.
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Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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Success demands sacrifices. I believe it's a small price to pay for the adulation and love one receives.
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I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
