Marion Barry Quotes

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Lion

• There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Women
  • Job

• I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Think
  • Look
  • Admire

• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Looking

• If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Child
  • Understand
  • Born

• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Love

• Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

  

  Jerry West
  • Great
  • Why
  • Team

• The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • English

• You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Why