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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There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.
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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
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Your ally today could be your adversary tomorrow and your ally the next day. Work hard, be polite, be respectful, and don't take it personally.
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I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.
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Scott will be desperate to beat us. He's one of the most talented coaches in world rugby and has done excellent work with Wales.
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
