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Dave Barry Quotes

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 3, 1947

Topics

Teen Advice Person Listen Old Your

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

Music Guitar Doing New Done Never

When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.

Fight Back Wall Want

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

Alone Free Peaceful Want Left Am

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Robert Conquest

Commitment Peace Think Warm Moral

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Crown Others Same Head Different

The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.

Imagine One Thing Still The One Thing

Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.

Strength Hope Empathy People World

Having watched the Botha fight, I wanted to get him out of there, but I didn't really want to hurt him as bad.

Fight Hurt Bad Want Him Out

I'm an artist; I love everyone.

Love Artist Everyone Love Everyone

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

Animal Mind Environmental Say Always

Maybe I should have a scandal - then I can be on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Stars I Can Dancing Scandal Should

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

Mother Child World Homework Wall

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