Dave Barry Quotes

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

Dave Barry

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LookingPlaceNewTryUpWest

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

John Carroll Lynch

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When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Max Joseph

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I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

Matthew McConaughey

LoveGoodThinkIndependentMore

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Jeff Beck

SuccessFailureYouHighPlotGoes

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Amanda Seyfried

WantPersonalNeverPrettySure

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

Amy Chua

LosingWorryNowWillWayTemper

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Spike Lee

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Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Stafford Cripps

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For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Tom McMillan

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So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Mary Augusta Ward

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What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.

Lowell Bergman

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The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Lucy Powell

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