Dave Barry Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.
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If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.
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Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.
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Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
