Dave Barry Quotes
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
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My mom was a single parent.
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And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
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Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
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We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed the single market yet, there is not sufficient free movement of goods, labour, services and money. We have to keep on working at that against all the protectionist tendencies that we have right now.
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Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
