Dave Barry Quotes
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I hate competition.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
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Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.