Dave Barry Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
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The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
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