Marion Barry Quotes

Who can better help our city recover than someone who himself has gone through recovery?

Marion Barry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1936 - November 23, 2014

Topics

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As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

John C. McGinley

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Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.

Maz Jobrani

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I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.

Maxine Peake

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I've already been KO'd, embarrassed. Nothing is going to be worse than that, so what's to be scared of?

Michael Bisping

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Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

Johnny Bench

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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

America Ferrera

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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Tori Amos

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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

Michel Legrand

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The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.

Lucy Dacus

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Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Before we even approached this movie, the 'Fantastic Four' on its own is very unique.

Josh Trank

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The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

Don Kardong

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