Dave Barry Quotes
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
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And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
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'Cop Car' was made with all of my friends. I wrote it with my best friend.
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
