The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.
When you’re finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it’s more DJs and dance parties.
I spend a lot of time dancing in gay bars and want my gay friends to be able to get married, but I don’t know if I ever want to get married and have kids. And I think that’s a common struggle.
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
When choosing the president of the United States and the leader of the free world, your desire to have a beer with a candidate should be your last concern. Let’s keep our president in the Oval Office and out of the bars.
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any major composer from Debussy to Ravel to Mozart to whoever else – you can kind of hum it.
I’m unsure how true this is, but I heard the story that Freddie Mercury and his friends used to dress Diana up like a guy and take her out to gay bars. That sounds incredible.
None of our bars smell like a bar at all – that’s our number one rule – and we use certain scented candles and certain types of incense in order to give our bars a specific feel and ambiance.
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is – about how devoid of compassion it is. It’s not healing the harm that victims experience. It’s not rehabilitating people. And in many ways, it’s making us less safe.
Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can’t do much if every town does it. There aren’t enough Bohemians.
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, ‘Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?’
On the road, I’ll always pack a package or two of pre-cooked lentils, nuts, vegan protein bars and powders.
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let’s invest in monkey bars.
I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.
There was someone from China who came down to my house and locked himself outside the gate. He wanted to marry me and created a lot of trouble. I had to eventually report to the police and put him behind the bars.
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
When I was young, there were bars called the ‘Hungry Hole,’ and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.
When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn’t seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.
I still don’t go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I’m not not going because I’m afraid, but rather I’m not going now because I don’t want to get off the couch.
It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.
After an era of everything being super-sized, who would have thought that major companies would be racing to market smaller, lower-calorie versions of their snacks and beverages – from half-sized candy bars to little, mini soda cans? We see it everywhere we go.
