Marion Barry Quotes
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
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I'm definitely still wild at heart.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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Sex is a discovery.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
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We have all in some degree become anarchistic.
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It's very important to get facials. Facials and sunscreen - people don't believe that black people need sunscreen, but sunscreen with save your life.
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I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.
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For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
