Dave Barry Quotes
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Quotes to Explore
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
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The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
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I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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The Baroness was like Jesus Christ and Shakespeare all rolled into one and perhaps she was the most influential person to me in the early part of my life.
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Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
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The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.
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Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
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I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.
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We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
