Marion Barry Quotes
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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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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 chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
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When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
