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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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
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I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
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An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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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.
