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.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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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.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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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.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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All literature is political.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a non-profit anymore.
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
