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Quote by Dave Barry
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. – Dave Barry

Other quotes by Dave Barry

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. – Dave Barry

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Fear
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Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. – Dave Barry

Category:
Violence
Author
Dave Barry
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough…. I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. – Dave Barry

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Skiing
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Dave Barry
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Other Quotes from
teen
category

I have this sense that I didnt really start growing up until my twenties. – Winona Ryder

Category:
teen

I mean, Im pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that Im like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and Im just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television. – Brittany Snow

Category:
teen

I dont like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. Im a teen actress and therefore Im competing against Hilary Duff. Were different people like everyone else. – Amanda Bynes

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teen

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life. – Shaun Cassidy

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teen

Random Quotes

The less you talk, the more youre listened to. – Abigail Van Buren

Category:
Wisdom

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. – Henry Rollins

Category:
Change

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – Henrik Ibsen

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Principles

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when youre not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. – Ricky Williams

Category:
Courage