Dave Barry Quotes
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
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I think losing your mother at such a young age does end up shaping your life massively. Of course it does, and now I find myself trying to be there and give advice to other people who are in similar positions.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.
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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
