Marion Barry Quotes
What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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Actor's life is very long.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
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Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
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In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
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Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
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I was in a TV show called 'Lucky' on FX. The casting director from 'Lucky' was casting 'Dragon Wars'. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.
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I supplement a lot. So I'll take a probiotic, and I mostly eat green food.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.
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What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.
