"I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress."

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Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.

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“It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.”
“Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.”
“If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.”
“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”
“Faith is important to me.”
“Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.”
“They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.92, Penguin

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