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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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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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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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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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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I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
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I look really good in a scuba suit.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.
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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
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I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.
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Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
