Dave Barry Quotes
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I love anything to do with history.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.
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I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
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Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
