Marion Barry Quotes
They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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I don't like controversy.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
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Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
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They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.
