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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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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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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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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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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But more than that, I wanted my wife and my family to see how I can actually play this game. They haven't seen me at my best, and I want them to.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
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My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
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Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
