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I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country!
The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.
My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.
If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals!
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
When Mom visits me in New York she hangs out with me and all my friends anyway. We go out to the gay bars together.
I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.
Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
As a border prosecutor, I've put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.
That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.
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.
A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.
I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.
I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.
We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome.
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?'
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.
Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.
I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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.
All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.
No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.