Even if it’s a horrible venue – a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting – we’re still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.
For all its reverb and defiant noise, the sound of Black Tambourine barely reached past the borders of Washington, D.C., in the early ’90s.
Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn’t have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn’t have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
Much of the time, we’re transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
When I met Justin Bieber, I could barely speak. I was just going crazy inside.
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That’s not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That’s barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It’s sort of like an ebb and flow thing.
I can’t get to the point where my brain is mush and I can barely talk, because my son’s life depends on my health.
I’m a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I’m certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.
I’ve actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you’ll be able to locate them. One was called ‘Violent Screen,’ and the other ‘Now Playing at the Valencia.’ Bantam and Simon and Schuster.
When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.
Either I’m going to be like an MGM starlet – get married five times, it will be a bit of a laugh – or I will get pregnant, by accident, with someone I barely know. We’ll get through it. They’ll be a great co-parent. We definitely won’t end up together.
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew – some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.
I began my career as a medical doctor in Ama Keng, a poor village in Lim Chu Kang. The people I cared for were ordinary Singaporeans. They were simple people who despite their hard work, had barely enough for themselves.
I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they’re barely even 14 or 15.
My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.
One thing I liked about ‘Silver Bell’ is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.
I lost my father when I was barely 10.
Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.
I shot for ‘Kamasutra 3D’ for barely 5 days. After which, a series of irreconcilable differences had risen between the makers of the film and myself.
When you’re a writer in Hollywood, you don’t get to work with other writers. You barely get to meet other writers. We’re interchangeable, disposable pieces that never really get to collaborate.
It’s hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don’t get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.
We’re barely a prank show, in my opinion. We don’t consider it that, we don’t call our stuff pranks. The challenges that we do are more social experiments that put each other in awkward situations.
In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.
I said I wanted to be the best in the world. I thought if I could make it, I would be able to change my future, to change my destiny. I would push myself to the limits. I would do 70 laps and barely eat.
I’m not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don’t ride a horse.
I’ve been on investigations where a spirit is channeling through me, and I have extreme changes in my emotions – anger, sadness, confusion. Then I begin seeing visions that are not mine. They are theirs. There is no trace of time. My body goes stiff, numb, cold. Then, when the spirit leaves, I can barely stand and speak.
I am pretty much gluten-free; I barely ever eat bread, and the only dairy I eat is Greek yogurt and goat cheese.
It’s surreal. Here I was, a bhangra champion who had performed at an Indian festival in the U.K. and Germany, a television theatre actor who barely made Rs 1,000 a day working like a donkey all year round.
When someone uses ‘low eight figures,’ that means barely eight figures.
I got to sing for Julie Andrews when I was a senior in college. I was singing some of her songs for an audition and wasn’t expecting her to be there, so when I walked in, I barely avoided peeing myself.
Growing up, any time I would sit down with my grandfather to learn or talk about Carnatic music, he would bring up G. N. Balasubramaniam. Listening to the recordings he would play me, I was dazzled by GNB’s voice and how he was able to execute ideas that I could barely wrap my head around.
From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people’s songs when we were in high school.
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
We’re all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that’s not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
‘The Apprentice’ has been excellent for my dad. Before, there was always that kind of corporate, Napoleonic evilness to Donald Trump. Now people see him interacting with normal – barely normal – individuals, and it’s like, ‘Wait a second. He’s a regular guy!’
Although I’m a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I’m actually amazed that I survived. Barely.
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn’t realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that… but that’s what it did.
The former West Germany was a semi-sovereign political pygmy, protected by America’s military might and with barely any foreign policy of its own. As a result, the country has no machinery or tradition of strategic thinking, and most Germans are loth to see their government take the lead.
I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.
I was always a guy that would study for three hours and barely get an A on the test and you would have another guy next to me who would study for maybe 30 minutes and ace it.
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
I barely get four hours of sleep everyday. I am shooting non-stop for ‘CNWK’ and ‘Akbar-Birbal.’ But it’s all worth it when people smile at me at traffic signals in warm recognition. I couldn’t have asked for more.
When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
