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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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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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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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.
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I didn't come to Washington to be a 'yes man' for any president, Democrat or Republican. I didn't come to Washington to get along and win any popularity contests.
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
