Dave Barry Quotes

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

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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.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Important
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• 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.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Know
  • Courage
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Money
  • Think

• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Never
  • Leader
  • Admit

• Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Passion
  • Football
  • Lifetime

• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Present

• Not enough people in this world are happy.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May

• How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Broken

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Author

• the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Competition

• You can't give up on your dreams.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Up

• Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

  

  Duane G. Carey

• Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

  

  Mark Walport

• For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

  

  Linda Hunt

• The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Roots
  • Dirt

• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  

  Dave Barry