Dave Barry Quotes
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
