Dave Barry Quotes
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.
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I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
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There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.
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Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
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I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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I like to provoke. I'm very French.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
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I now understand the need for faith-pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith-as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
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In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.
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The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.
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Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.
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We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
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Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
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Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.
