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.Marion Barry
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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.
Sadie Frost -
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.
Lady Gaga -
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.
D. B. Sweeney -
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
Barry Commoner -
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.
G. Willow Wilson -
Actor's life is very long.
Jackie Chan
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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.
Garth Brooks -
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.
Lady Gregory -
Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
Naguib Sawiris -
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
Taki Theodoracopulos -
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown -
It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
Adrienne Barbeau
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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.
Laurie Metcalf -
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.
Joanna Southcott -
Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
James F. Amos -
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.
Craig Robinson -
I supplement a lot. So I'll take a probiotic, and I mostly eat green food.
Jillian Michaels -
I recommend the students that you should work actively at the Hermitage and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.
Kazimir Malevich
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
Abigail Spencer -
I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.
Drew Barrymore -
Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
Fatos Nano -
Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more c to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.
Wilder Penfield -
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.
Marion Barry