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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.
Stay inside the ball, put the barrel on it, and swing hard.
If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.
There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.
I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.
The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.
I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.
A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.
You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.
Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.
Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.
A lot of my family going back were cowboys and barrel racers, and I'd say I'm 50 percent high fashion and 50 percent cowgirl.
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.
For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me.
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.
I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.
My hair is really easy. I used to wear it very curly on air, but they prefer a smoother look on television. I just flat iron it and do big barrel curls.
Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
I stick to stuff I'm pretty sure of and I know this: when the price of a barrel of oil is under $80 a barrel and you build a pipeline, you are driving up greenhouse gases.