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.
Barry Bonds -
The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
Carles Puigdemont -
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch -
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.
Victoria Woodhull -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
Paige VanZant -
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.
Marat Safin -
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.
J. D. Vance -
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Salman Rushdie -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
J. B. Pritzker -
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
Nate Powell -
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen
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My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!
Derek Jacobi -
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
Terence McKenna -
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick -
I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
Hans Vestberg -
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
Albert Einstein -
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Dave Barry