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Have you seen that magazine Barely Legal? That means when you look at it, you're almost a pedophile. -- Dave Attell
Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were alot easier to take when you were sleeping." - Rio to Dylan -- Tina St. John
I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it. -- Colin Meloy
The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely. -- Jarod Kintz
Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered. -- Amine Maalouf
Janie calls Cabel. "Hi, uh, Mom," she says. Cabel snorts. "Hello, dear. Did you make it through the blizzard?" "Yeah. Barely." Janie grins into the phone. -- Lisa McMann
Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another. -- Alex Morritt
I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely. -- Sean Covey
I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out. -- Brooke Burke
Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it! -- Dolly Parton
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life. -- Michael Ondaatje
She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms." (Barely Restrained, 2011)" -- Brenda Cothern
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. -- Mark Twain
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. -- Mason Cooley
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. -- Charles Baudelaire
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' -- Christopher Hitchens
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. -- Werner Herzog
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap. -- Fareed Zakaria
God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm. -- Joyce Meyer
I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!' -- Jamie Lee Curtis
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. -- Russell M. Nelson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. -- Laozi
Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them. -- Jo Brand
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. -- David Suzuki
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. -- Bill Bryson
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. -- Thomas Aquinas
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band. -- Gene Simmons
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. -- Thomas Carper
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. -- Eric Alterman
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant. -- Jonah Lomu
Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. -- Margaret Cho
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. -- Alice Oswald
I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring. -- Cory Monteith
I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe. -- Adrian Peterson
As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind. -- Steven Van Zandt
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature. -- Diane von Furstenberg
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast. -- Ryan Holmes
After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass. -- Joe Namath
I barely speak English. -- Eric Ripert
Sometimes one barely understand oneself. -- Pope Alexander VI
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. -- Tom Petty
We've just barely stopped being monkeys. -- Duncan Trussell
I can barely turn on my computer! -- Jack Nicklaus
That girl can barely spell her name. -- Tupac Shakur
I barely leave my cage, my house. -- Kim Coates
Thriving. That's fightingSurviving is barely getting by. -- Jillian Michaels
I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me. -- Marc Maron
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by. -- Jillian Michaels
I actually barely ever go on the Internet. -- Evan Goldberg
You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived. -- Magnus
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait -- Robert Hunter
It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew. -- Nicholas Sparks
... some of the best sex I can barely remember. -- Chelsea Handler
You have a college degree? You can barely talk. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything. -- Natalie Wood
Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar. -- Big L
I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this. -- Catherine Keener
I barely knew I had skin before I met you. -- Sarah Waters
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. -- Stephen King
It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war. -- Henry A. Kissinger
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. -- Rumi
My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable -- Anne Lamott
I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal. -- Bill Hader
Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one -- Woody Allen
I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line. -- Ned Beatty
Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on. -- Shannon L. Alder
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. -- Witter Bynner
Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune. -- Dave Davies
I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin -- Frank McCourt
I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. -- William S. Burroughs
With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another. -- Alber Elbaz
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. -- Don DeLillo
Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it. -- Tim Lebbon
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST. -- Richard Brautigan
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago. -- Andrew Sullivan
She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation. -- L.A. Weatherly
We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity. -- Jean Houston
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. -- Ani DiFranco
My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot. -- Ben Quayle
You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter. -- Woody Allen
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart. -- Billy Collins
I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions. -- Barbara Johnson
You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change. -- Scott Adams
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. -- Sam Shepard
I never went to college - I barely got out of high school. -- Dave Matthews
Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load. -- Joe Brooks
You ever love somebody so much You can barely breathe When you're with them -- Eminem
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets. -- Andrew Jackson
Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind. -- Kami Garcia
People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place. -- Jim Talent
Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve. -- David Suzuki
I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical. -- Nora Roberts
There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe. -- Michael Palin
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. -- Mark Twain
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" "? don't do it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse. -- China Machado
We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars. -- Ray Davies
The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer. -- David Wilkerson
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. -- Fran Lebowitz
It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary. -- Anna Kendrick
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. -- David Koepp
America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day. -- Karl Rove
Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses -- Steve Aylett
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. -- Edgar Degas
[A]ltos are walking amongst us, making life richer, though we may barely know it. -- Anna George Meek
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. -- James Cook
He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool. -- Mindy Kaling
My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money. -- O. J. Simpson
My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs. -- Gillian Jacobs
I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all. -- Billy Graham
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again -- Julia Child
We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know. -- Charlene Spretnak
I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed. -- Roz Chast
I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. -- Rachel Hartman
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. -- C. Maxwell Stanley
Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned. -- Alcee Hastings

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