Dave Barry Quotes
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
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I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession!
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Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.
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I would wear pajamas to work every day if it were up to me.
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Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
