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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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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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'm a realist and I always have been.
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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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Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school.
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There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")
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I'm against the Right of money and the Left of money.
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With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.
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Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
