Dave Barry Quotes
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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* 'In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.'
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.
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Our country is in the middle of a profound crisis. This crisis has many causes, but much of it has been brought about by poor leadership decisions at every level of government. In addition, our electoral process is dominated by financial interests that are threatened by the very notion of reform.
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Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. 'That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?'
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
