Dave Barry Quotes
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Being evil is easy.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Upon leaving the derivatives business, our feelings about the business mirrored a line in a country song: 'I liked you better before I got to know you so well.'
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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
