Dave Barry Quotes
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
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When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.
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Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
