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Quote by Dave Barry
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts suc

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. – Dave Barry

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Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. – Dave Barry

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Technology
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Dave Barry
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Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. – Dave Barry

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Weeds
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. – Dave Barry

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Art
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Music is the melody whose text is the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion – very powerful emotions. Thats what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and – people identify with that. – Annie Lennox

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The real art of conducting consists in transitions. – Gustav Mahler

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Music

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldnt have had more obstacles. – Marilyn Manson

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He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

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Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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