Marion Barry Quotes
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
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I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others.
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It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
