Dave Barry Quotes

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Government is not the enemy. Government is simply a tool that can be used wisely or unwisely.

People must not do things for fun .... There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.

That’s the function of government—to do for people what they cannot do for themselves.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

I love theater, going to the movies, and cooking new vegan dishes at home. I also love dancing salsa and traveling, and doing outdoor sports such as biking, hiking, and swimming.

I'm not going back to acting, and I'm not going to seek elective office.

We respect all of our competitors, and when I talk about our competitors, all of our competitors for entertainment time and leisure time.

In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

It's just, it's fun to stay in the game.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.