Dave Barry Quotes

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Shoulder

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Win
  • Competitive

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • History
  • Nation
  • Most

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • You
  • Peace

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Future
  • Name
  • Jewelry

• Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Power
  • American
  • War

• High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • High

• The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Country
  • Children
  • School

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Page

• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  

  Dave Barry
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