Marion Barry Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson -
I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
Fat Joe -
If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
Landon Donovan -
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson -
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
Rachel Kushner
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci -
I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
Haley Joel Osment -
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
Vince Cable -
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry Commoner -
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge -
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza -
I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
K. Flay -
I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
P. J. O'Rourke -
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
Kajol -
We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
Oliver Tambo -
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Carl Perkins
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Gary Wolf -
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday -
White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
Jess Row -
My feelings about myself have been terrible.
Alvin Ailey -
At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.
Zach Braff -
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry