Bars Quotes - Page 4

• Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Poverty, Offers, Underpaid

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Needs, Lateral Thinking

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Satisfaction, Pursuit, Chiefs

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• I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Years, Trying

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow Piper Perabo". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Business, War

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• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

  Donald Cargill

  May, Kingdoms, Gale

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• You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

  George Carlin

  Feelings, Chocolate, Sitting

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  Garth Hudson

  Country, Order, Play

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• Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Discipline, Padlocks, Maidens

  "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

  George Clooney

  Years, Guy, Looks

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• The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

  Alexis Korner

  Emotional, Attention, Littles

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• My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

  Brian Eno

  Cutting, Guitar, Play

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• To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

  Robert Fulghum

  Humanity, Cages, Human Nature

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.261, Ballantine Books

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• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

  Thomas Hardy

  War, Crowns, Half

  "The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

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• To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

  Katharine Anthony

  Dramatic, Construction, Biographers

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• Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

  Herman Melville

  Fate, Men, Judging

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.370, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

  Jeremy Piven

  Boys, Men, Mitzvah

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• I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

  Gregg Allman

  Fighting, Trying, Weight

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. December 13, 1997.

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• I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

  Johnny Bench

  Player, Horny, Walks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

  Marsilio Ficino

  Success, Men, Feet

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• I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

  Eric Carr

  Years, Band

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