Dave Barry Quotes
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
Quotes to Explore
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A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
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I always pack lots of loose linen shirts and denim cut offs, Converse, vintage Reformation sun dresses, gold jewellery, and statement shades. Plus a trunk full of swimwear, of course.
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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.
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We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
