Marion Barry Quotes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy -
Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
Gavin Newsom -
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou
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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 -
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 -
There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley -
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 -
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
Samuel Barnett
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford -
The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
Jasmine Guinness -
Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?
Hal Elrod -
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
Maurice Strong -
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
T. H. White -
Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.
Marion Barry