Marion Barry Quotes
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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I am not irresponsible.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.
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I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
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Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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I always breathe cricket.
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Cupid draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover's heart for me, for me...Cupid please hear my cry and let your arrow fly straight to my lover's heart for me.
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Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.
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The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.
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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
