Dave Barry Quotes
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I enjoy my life.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.
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Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
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As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
