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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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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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 -
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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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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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I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.
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Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
