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.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
-
I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
-
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
-
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
-
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.
-
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
-
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.
-
I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
-
Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
-
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.
-
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
-
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
-
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
-
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
-
Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
-
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.
-
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
-
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
-
Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
-
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
-
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
-
It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.
-
That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
-
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.'
