Wherever I travel, I always head for a drink at the hotel bar as soon as I arrive. Not only is it a great way to relax, but it’s a fantastic way to feel the pulse of a city.
I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that’s pretty sweet.
When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school – but I’d take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
I don’t want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.
I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I’m the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.
The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the ‘Star Wars’ bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.
I was in one bar band from 1965 to ’69, then I was in another one from 1970 to ’79 – a 9-year bar band!
I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them – an admittedly minor slice – are shaded with the elements of high art.
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
It’s been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast. The episode ‘The King of Tears’ suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it’s not afraid of specifics.
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor ‘maestro’. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, ‘Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?’
For my meal replacements, I eat way too many Quest bars. I think you should eat every three hours. I usually wake up once a night, and if I do wake up, I always eat a Quest bar to feed my machine.
Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.
The challenge is moving fast and staying great. You have to keep the bar high. There’s only one way you can evolve the brand and perception, which is to deliver. You just gotta lay it down.
We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from one point to another.
I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn’t get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.
I actually want to hold on to where I came from, and also I want to be at this bar in Brooklyn, even if I’m not drinking at all. What does that tension look like? It’s less an attack on the parents and more an interrogation of personal guilt, personal responsibility. That’s my internal dialogue.
I’ve set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he’s known as Straight Dave by the bar staff – and no one believes he’s as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I’ve ever had.
People connect to a good bar very personally.
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.
If you don’t have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you’re a bar band. Good rhythm section, you’ve got a chance to get out of the bar.
When I go to M Bar there’s all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: ‘I could’ve been Bond. Buy me a drink.’ That’s the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: ‘I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.’
I like to go out and write. So I’ll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I’ll sit there and I’ll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
My feeling is, if you’re going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It’s better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should’ve been doing all along, writing and recording.
I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn’t a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you’re reading your Torah portion, you’re not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.
Not only a great game, ‘Uncharted 2’ raised the bar for storytelling for the medium. The game treated action as a part of the overall story rather than a way to move from plot point to plot point.
To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
When I go into a sports bar, some of the people I wouldn’t think would watch women’s basketball are there watching.
I always compare myself to what I did last, so I’ve got to try and beat what I did last. I’m always upping my own bar.
I’d actually quite like to try working behind a bar for a while. I’d give that a go.
The people at Dylan’s Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun… and love the colors and the textures.
Personally, I can’t see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.
I am the kind of person who likes taking one step at a time and raising the bar with each film.
I write everything with fountain pens. I don’t know why. I’ve done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I’ve never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
Everyone’s set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.
‘Chicago’ kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.
Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He’s set the bar extremely high, and I’ll do my best to meet that standard.
I fuel up every morning, no matter if it’s with a shake or a breakfast bar on the go. I eat well, but I have my cheats. I eat cookies, chips, and have a Coke, but only on days that start with S.
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
So the first job that I got – my father got it for me – he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry’s of Georgetown.
Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc’ing about the meeting.
The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you’re going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I’ve got to be ready to play.
The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
On ‘Bar Rescue,’ failure is not an option. I have to try to turn the business around.
No party is complete without cocktails! My friends all have different tastes when it comes to their drink of choice, so I like to maintain a well-stocked bar with different kinds of alcohol to keep everyone happy.
When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don’t know what you can achieve.
Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant.
I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick’s Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, ‘Dad, I can fix it.’ It was the most natural thing I’d ever done. It just made sense to me.
