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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I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
