Bars Quotes - Page 11

• A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

  Don DeLillo

  Fate, Dark, Afternoon

  Don DeLillo (2007). “Underworld: A Novel”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Athlete, People, Records

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• All over Montana, you can walk into a bar, a café or even a school or a courthouse and just listen for a while as people talk to each other. And you will hear somebody, before very long, say something outrageously racist.

  Brian Schweitzer

  School, Long, People

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• Biathletes need to eat 6.000 calories a day: six thousand! That's the equivalent of 2 pounds of butter, 70 slices of bread, 112 eggs, 86 tabs of yogurts, 28 potatoes, 117 biscuits and 21 TWIX bars. On that basis, I could be an Olympic biathlete!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Eggs, Needs, Yogurt

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• When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

  Simon Bird

  Space, Fans, Female

  "'I've had to sign seven breasts': Inbetweeners star Simon Bird on fans, marriage and his new sitcom". Interview with Steve Myall, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

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• The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.

  Steve Carell

  Lows, Limbo, Only Time

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• I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  New York, Israel, Cities

  Source: thequietus.com

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• To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.

  Danny Fox

  Jobs, Two, Differences

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Culture, Lows, Rhetoric

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.

  Moby

  Guy, Mars, Firsts

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you're hungry.

  William Davis

  Blood, Two, Brain

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.

  Cholly Atkins

  Couple, Artist, Order

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• There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Song, Drinking, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

  Craig Finn

  Car, Rhyming, Problem

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.

  T.C. Boyle

  Night, Dope, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Math, Play

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• I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.

  Jack Barakat

  Dream, Lovely, Meetings

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• I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever truly the case, but I don't feel that I need to decide between playing for a sit-down, totally silent audience and playing for a bunch of noisy, drunk people in a bar. What I do with the group is somewhere in between.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Black And White, Play, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

  Ray Stevenson

  Stars, Rocks, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

  Joel Stein

  Years, Happens, Angry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  People, Stories, Tribes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, Interesting, Passionate

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro Amenábar was trying to make.

  Ethan Hawke

  Ideas, Giving, Trying

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unique, Helping Someone, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Class, America

  Source: collider.com

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