Dave Barry Quotes
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
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The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
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Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
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How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?
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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
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To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.
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the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.
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You can't give up on your dreams.
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Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
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Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
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With all the reaching out that's going around here, the President said Thursday in his press conference that he was reaching out to the press corp. What did he mean by that and why would he feel the need to reach out to a group of supposedly non-partisan people? — November 8, 2004
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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
