Bars Quotes - Page 16

• I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .

  Dar Williams

  Feet, Singing, Mojo

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in terms of doing things "right," and seeing children more as products to be perfected than simply children.

  Helen Fielding

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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• When I go to a bar or a party, I feel like a student invited me to the kegger, and I actually ended up going. And everyone's shocked: "Oh, my god, professor, I didn't know you were actually going to come!" That's me in any circle, really, especially when I hang out with my brother's friends.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Brother, Party, Circles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That`s why somebody like a Tim Ryan can go to a bar in Youngstown just as well as in Congress and talk to working people. Democrats know how to carry the message. We just have to take some telephone new voices and bring them forward.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Voice, People, Messages

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I did pass the bar in Pennsylvania. I can practice Amish law. But it's long expired, my bar license.

  Rich Fulcher

  Law, Practice, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Raised, Higher

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• Certainly in business terms, considering how thriving the market is. Understanding what people want is essential. We have a team on the ground whose job it is to keep tabs on what's good, whether it's a tapas bar in Barcelona, or an amazing fish and chip shop in Yorkshire.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Jobs, Team, People

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• Videoing, lifting it, prodding it, and five minutes later they might even eat it! That first approach to the naked eye is crucial, so when you see pictures coming through on your social media, it does push you to be a little more creative and raise the bar a little bit higher.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Eye, Media, Creative

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Dog, Fun, Thinking About You

  Source: collider.com

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• I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But nobody came.But nobody came because nobody knew what the hell that was. I only had black friends. No one knows what the hell you're doing.

  Trevor Noah

  Black, Mitzvah, Hell

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• [I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I didn't understand most of it.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Reading, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Block, One Direction

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, People, Drink

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am invisible in gay bars.

  Billy Eichner

  Gay, Invisible

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.

  Billy Eichner

  Party, Want, Mitzvah

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Army, Years, Tonight

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• It's like, "Women can't handle things because they're always sad. That's estrogen." Men brag about testosterone, which makes them completely out of control too. On the other end of things, it's like, "Oh it was just testosterone. He got in a bar fight." Why is that better than crying at work?

  Jen Kirkman

  Fighting, Men, Cry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

  Nat Hentoff

  Parent, My Family, Franklin

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The matter of bringing in corrupt leaders was started by [Mwai ] Kibaki, and in truth, do not be surprised if you find that the likes of William Ruto find themselves behind bars after the elections, because he has cases pending against him.

  Raila Odinga

  Leader, Matter, Likes

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• People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Jesus, Gay, Charlie Hebdo

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, People, Empowering

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

  Max Lucado

  Bedroom, Born, Brothels

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies.

  Chris Murphy

  Mean, People, Tragedy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Revolutionary, Century, Castro

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Men, Editors

  Source: www.npr.org

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