Marion Barry Quotes
There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
Marion Barry
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
Oprah Winfrey
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
J. A. Konrath
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. James Clark
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
Camille Paglia
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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.
Andrew Sean Greer
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People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
Brian Johnson
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston
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He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy.
Joanne Rowling
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There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
Marion Barry
