Bars Quotes - Page 34

• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Fighting, Texas, Knives

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

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• There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Mom, Angel, Sides

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

  Jonathan Raban

  Presidential, Prose

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.462, Pan Macmillan

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• I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Horse, Bored, Silence

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• Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Order

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Kids, Want

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• We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

  Merle Haggard

  Friendship, Rooms, Kind

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

  Jenny Eclair

  Beach, Track, Want

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.

  Maureen Lipman

  Emotional, Mitzvah, Wedding Day

  Maureen Lipman (2013). “Past-It Notes”, p.149, JR Books Limited

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• Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

  Melvin Belli

  Book, Law, Clubs

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• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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• 21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

  Michael Eisner

  Media, Years, America

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• I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

  Whitney Cummings

  Fate, Men, Should Have

  "Can Whitney Cummings Get Some Respect?" by Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. November 18, 2012.

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• Another show I really enjoyed working on was Raising The Bar. I did four or five episodes of that show.

  Max Greenfield

  Four, Episodes, Shows

  "Max Greenfield on his current role on New Girl and his Veronica Mars history". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

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• If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

  Nina Bawden

  People, Safety, Would Be

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• Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

  Swizz Beatz

  Winning, Thinking, Needs

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• As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

  Michael Biehn

  Lovers, Tough, Fighter

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• When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Special, United States

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• When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.

  William Bell

  Military, School, Weekend

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• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  Darren Criss

  Ambitious, Raises, Raising The Bar

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

  Emilia Clarke

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Alfie Allen & Emilia Clarke chat 'Game Of Thrones'". www.digitalspy.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  Laura Carmichael

  Jobs, Drama, Teaching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

  Christopher Cross

  Song, Lines, Lasts

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