"The most valuable function performed by the federal……" — Dave Barry
"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment."
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508 Quotes by Dave Barry
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management…
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only…
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More Entertainment Quotes
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one of 1,237 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of…
— Hannah Arendt
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction…
— J. G. Ballard
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
— Antonio Banderas
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I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And…
— Tyra Banks
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All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
— John Banville
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular…
— George Ade
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
— James Belushi
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
— Allan Bloom
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
— Garth Brooks
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