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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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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.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I love what I do.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
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I'm not surprised by our start. That's what we planned to do before the season started because we have a lot of kids coming back who played a lot last season.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
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After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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.
