Marion Barry Quotes

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

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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When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Jennifer O'Neill

PeopleOthersRealizeEverything

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

Andre Rieu

LoveHomeBreakfastLongGarden

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

Anna Deavere Smith

PowerHatTrueMoreResponsibleTip

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

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A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

Alyssa Edwards

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Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.

Sissy Spacek

New YorkMeNewLivingNeverMiddle

Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

Simon Mainwaring

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I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

Robert Wilson

I AmTheatreDoingKindNeverWould

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Louis Armstrong

PeopleYouKnowSome PeopleTell

'Coloradan' is not a word I'd use to describe Michael Bennet.

Jon Keyser

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We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

SupportTaxWayPermanentWorking

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

Chris Rock

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