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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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
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I want to play the mean girl one day - or the mean gay!
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Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...
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I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
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I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
