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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
-
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.
-
Actor's life is very long.
-
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
-
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.
-
Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
-
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
-
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-
It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
-
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.
-
I supplement a lot. So I'll take a probiotic, and I mostly eat green food.
-
The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
-
You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.
-
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
-
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.
-
Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.
-
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.
