“You can't really walk anywhere. Where are you going to go? Everything closes at a certain hour and it's a highway with bars on it; that's what it is.” CertainHoursWalksBarsHighways Author:John Leguizamo
“Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.” WellsHeardKeysMy FavoriteBarsHighwaysPlaywrightTennessee Author:John Leguizamo
“I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.” IfsKnowsFeelsGamesWaitingPlayerRaisesBarsOpponentsTennisElevationTennis PlayerRaising The Bar Author:John Leguizamo
“That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.” ThinkingWellsLittlesPlayBigsKidsFormDarkNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTypeBandProjectsMarkGuitarMy FavoriteBarsOddAttractiveArrangementsSectionsBig QuestionsUnconventionalQuestion MarkFavorite Bands Author:Charlie Clouser
“The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartDifferentFilmGuyLanguageFiveNiceDoorsEuropeLonelyBarsGreat ThingsDrunkBankersThat GuyBrooklynWaitressNice GuyDifferent LanguagesMobsterLonely HeartAntwerpRotterdam Author:Thomas Bidegain
“I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.” KnowsHeartJobsRecordsFrontsJudgingMy HeartPoliticianDrinkingBarsParliamentSleevesJudge MeShowyHeart On My Sleeve Author:Theresa May
“In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the history of the world. In 2009 alone there were 1.6 million drug-related arrests in the U.S. 1.3 million of these were for possession of drugs alone. Over half were related to marijuana. The forty-year war on drugs has cost $2.5 trillion.” WorldYearsWarCountryTodayBehindsHalfMillionsCostDrugPossessionBarsRelatedFortyPrisonerMarijuanaWorld HistoryWar On Drugs Author:Sam Branson
“I've never dated anyone because they were vegetarian, just like I'm gay but don't only go to gay bars. I hang out with people because they are fun, smart, and kind, and if they happen to be veg I'm thrilled.” PeopleIfsKindHappensFunGaySmartBarsHanging OutVegetarian Author:Dan Mathews
“I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.” IfsNeedsTryingI CanHoursFiveWeekHealthyNormalSixBeatsActiveBarsBad DayProteinFourteen Author:Rhea Seehorn
“It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.” YearsFirstsMadeWatchesLateConcernOkayKillingBarsMade ItNeighborhoodWarningBulletsStrokesShady Author:Questlove
“I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.” KindLowsBarsDisappointed Author:Natalie Maines
“Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"” ThinkingKnowsTryingHappensJokesBarsLocalsHorribleSalsaBurritos Author:Daniel Tosh
“I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.” IfsKnowsShouldRunningSoundJazzClubsMilesBarsHornsPosters Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.” YearsStuffGuitarNineBarsThirteenNine Years Author:DJ Ashba
“There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.” WorldLittlesFacesEnergyBoysSixSevenBarsTapeLittle BoysBar MitzvahMitzvahMendel Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.” PeopleFeelsLittlesLeftBitsTeachingTaughtLittle BitYogaTownsWinterActiveBarsParksOwnersPushingSkisColoradoInstructorsSkiersPushing It Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.” WayLooksBandStonesBarsKneesRollingTouringRolling Stones Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.” GivingLongHas BeensEarthBarsSaladBuffets Author:Darren Aronofsky
“I was about to get in the shower; I took a nude selfie, kept it in my phone for over a year. I just liked the picture, so I was like,"Let me put censor bars on it and post it." I don't do things to be like, "This is powerful. I'm going to show you guys that this is my 'message.''' I'm not that type of person".” YearsPersonsShowsGuyPowerfulTypeMessagesLet MePhonesBarsPostsShowers Author:Kim Kardashian
“I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.” HardStoriesFourGroupsStyleYouthBandMusicianPerformancesCleanDecadesCoreBarsAcesHard CoreHomegrown Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a rule where the bar, to get your name added to the writing credits, if you've done a revision, is very high if you're also the producer or director.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingDoneShowsProblemNamesDirectorsCreditBarsProducersShow BusinessRevision Author:Judd Apatow
“And when I say [M2 was] lo-fi production, it was so great and grimy. I was used to that world anyway, because we shot in bars, we shot in thrift shops, we shot on the street. And the bars, they would have just opened, and still there was barf on the floor and beer. We certainly kept it real. It was a small crew.” WorldStillsRealUsedStreetsShotsProductionsBarsBeerShopsCrewThrift Author:Jancee Dunn
“I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting.” PersonsI CanShowsNamesInterestingBehindsStageBarsAirports Author:Asher Roth
“I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.” KindPlaySoundCitiesBreakStyleNew YorkBrokenBirdBarsVersionsBroken Up Author:Van Morrison
“Sometimes it could be just during the day, when I'm riding in the car or on the plane. I'll hear somebody say something that strikes a chord and I write it down and write bars at a time, and then when I'm in the studio I go to those bars and I'm like, "Maybe I should make a song about this."” ShouldWritingSometimesSongCarDown AndStudiosStrikesBarsPlanesRidingChords Author:Tyga
“There is often times when I'm in a bar or after a show, and a woman just grabs my head and shoves it into her cleavage, or grabs my ass, or something like that which - don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining, but it's just interesting. It's just interesting that that occurs.” ShowsInterestingComplainingBarsAssCleavage Author:Brad Williams
“My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.” RecordsBandMy FriendsStoresBarsRecord Stores Author:Sarah Harmer
“Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.” PeopleInvolvedMusic IsMalesClubsBarsListenersAsiaParticipantsSoutheast Asia Author:Alan Bishop
“We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.” WellsMomentsShowsEasyBornLove IsPartyEffortCompanyLove YouCryBarsMagazinesKitchenLove Each OtherCocktailsSay I Love YouGood CompanyCocktail PartiesUninvitedGranolaGranola Bars Author:Shauna Niequist
“The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?” IfsWayGivingMeanKnowingAccountsDefensePursuitBarsIgnorantMotiveUrgesLengthUrgentStewardshipTranscendentReckoning Author:William Wilberforce
“The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.” LightNightTakenBarsFlashOnly Time Author:Nan Goldin
“We are looking forward to Donald Trump releasing his medical information. Just making sure everybody is meeting at the same bar here.” InformationTrumpMeetingsMedicalBarsLooking Forward Author:Robby Mook
“What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?” PeopleThinkingWayHumansPowerfulRichSurvivalMassGreedBars Author:Allen W. Wood
“In the one-on-one it is going to be harder for [Donald] Trump to get away from those sorts of things because there will be more opportunities for Hillary [Clinton] to follow up on those sorts of things. And I also think to your previous point, I think she really does need to induce errors from him because the biggest hazard to Hillary Clinton is that Trump could clear the low bar of acceptability in debate.” ThinkingNeedsDoeOpportunityClearTrumpLowsHarderErrorsClintonDebateBarsGet AwayHazardsOne On OneFollow Up Author:Josh Barro
“I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.” StillsDifferentFallWalksStreetsNew YorkMountainBarsClimbingHeritageJacketsClimbing Mountain Author:Sam Heughan
“If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.” IfsBigsLife IsBarsHotelToo ShortLife Is Too Short Author:Derek Waters
“If you're younger, you shouldn't be spending all your cash at a bar.” IfsSpendingBarsCash Author:Derek Waters
“All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?” IfsHas BeensDoneProblemWonderAddictionBarsGasWrestlerWomanizer Author:Scott Hall
“When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.” IfsThinkingFirstsTwoIdeasPlayFormNeededRapBarsThirtyVersesRhymeSixteen Author:Kate Tempest
“I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.” WritingYearsStuffWatchesMy FriendsExcitingBars Author:Molly Shannon
“BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals!” ShouldMatterBlackAnimalBehindsBarsLockedPatheticBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Steve Clevenger
“I also feel like the kinds of jobs I want right now - I consider them aspirational. I want to raise the bar for myself, and I am in this interesting spot where I do get offered a lot of things, but frankly, the majority of the things I get offered I'm not really interested in doing. I want to do the things that I have to fight for.” WantFeelsKindJobsFightingInterestingRight NowRaisesMajorityBarsSpotsRaising The Bar Author:Zachary Quinto
“I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.” WayWantJobsGamesDirectorsProveBarsBest WayRaising The Bar Author:Zachary Quinto
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“Sebastian [ Vettel] can also learn to be more laid-back. It's never too late to learn. He's got some way to go. He's young and will turn out well. I'm not worried about that. He'll raise the bar ever higher.” WayWellsYoungTurnsHigherLateRaisesBarsWorriedToo LateNever Too LateLaid BackRaising The BarVettel Author:Niki Lauda
“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.” YearsWellsTwoTenTaxesOrdinaryRedArmyPropertyIncludingSoldierBarsOfficialsBelongingUniformsCoatsFilesCommandersBlanketChairmanCollectorsCottonCollarsMaoLandlordRed Army Author:Edgar Snow
“The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.” MeanDoeWarIndividualTermMillionsExampleMassMurderExtremesBarsInstanceGenocideHolocaustNaziCambodia Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.” YearsWantedCareersYears AgoDecidedBarsPursueContributionParliament Author:George Brandis
“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 .” FeetStageSingingWindowTinyBarsCanadaAnimatedMojo Author:Dar Williams
“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.” PeopleKnowsWellsVoiceKnow HowMessagesDemocratCongressBarsTelephones Author:Lawrence O'Donnell