Dave Barry Quotes

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Broadway

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Health

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Amazing

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • School
  • Job
  • Parents

• I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

  

  Fredric March
  • Wish

• Time is a game played beautifully by children.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Time
  • Children
  • Game

• I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Life

• If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

  

  David Christian
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

  

  Dave Barry
  • American