Marion Barry Quotes
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.
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Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
