Marion Barry Quotes

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

Marion Barry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeInsecurityDownNeedEveryone

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

Anatoli Boukreev

TravelYearCountryImportantSee

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

Jeffrey Gitomer

RelationshipGreatValueWinHelp

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Robbins

ExistenceGetFiveStillSevenDid

There's a great deal of tension between so many kind of distinctive and restrictive female archetypes and images in the world. When you play with the archetypes, you get free.

Roisin Murphy

GreatWorldFreeYouPlayKind

I love restaurants, and I love cooking.

Mary Quant

LoveCookingI LoveRestaurants

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

Missy Peregrym

SacrificeFamousFeelWantJust

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.

Juan Williams

TogetherDreamPresidentNeverFirst

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Judith Butler

WomenI AmEqualitySafetyViolence

FUBU is pretty well licensed out in China and Asia. In America it's a little more of a challenge, obviously, because it's a branded sport.

Daymond John

ChallengeAmericaMoreOutChina

I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

Clark Gregg

WinterCarSadCoolAmericaCaptain

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

CommunicationSilencePeopleOnly

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.

William Hurt

GoodSayingAmericaKnowToronto

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