Dave Barry Quotes
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?
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I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.
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I don't drink at all. I don't condone any of that. And I'm also underage so everything I do is of course under a microscope because a lot of people are onto me growing up. But I won't mess up. I have a lot of good people around me.
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
