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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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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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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I'm not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.
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I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
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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.
