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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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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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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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
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Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.
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The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.
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I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
