I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I’m on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.
If you’re in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it’s a very special thing.
The ‘Momofuku Milk Bar’ cookbook is rather technical. I wanted it to feel like you were walking into the doors of our kitchen, it was your first day at work, and we were going to teach you everything.
My father raised us like… we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, ‘Oh that fat person, or this person,’ he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren’t allowed to look at people like that.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers’ unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.
My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
I’m just talking specifically of women’s friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.
You can never set the bar too high.
Who can wonder at the attractiveness… of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.
I don’t want to make ‘Chandni Bar 2.’ I didn’t think ‘Fashion 2’ will happen. If a film ends on a high note… makes the audience think and lingers in the end… that is needed.
I think it’s more important to pray for my son than go out with my friends drinking at a bar until midnight while he waits for me to come home.
The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It’s the classic idea of the artistic existence.
San Francisco is one of the worst-dressed cities in the world, bar none.
The fact that a wrestling program called ‘Raw’ could be the longest running television show in the history of television, bar nobody – nobody can now say we’re not on the map.
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, ‘How can one make the impossible materialise?’
I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.
Anyone from our era knows that Guru was in every club and every bar and every spot. He could go all night, all day. And he would never be tired!
I always set the bar very high, not in terms of results but most in terms of preparation and focusing on the job there is to do in the car.
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?
I’m a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ because you have to: that’s part of your bar mitzvah experience.
So much of what we decide to carry in our stores is based on what we hear through the Dylan’s Candy Bar Facebook Page and Twitter feeds.
I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.
If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she’s on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.
I don’t need to do that many weights but every now and then I do the bar, with 25-30 kilos on either side, which amounts to roughly probably my body weight. I lift this up above my head, then drop it and lift it up again.
I remember going to a son’s friend’s bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
If you listen to Drake’s first single… he copied my whole bar word for word and my cadence and my flow from my song. Can I just get my credit?
Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.
Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that’s it, basically.
I was really excited when films like ‘Kaala Paani,’ ‘Maachis,’ ‘Chandni Bar’ and others came my way. The sheer fact that I would get to portray various emotions was thrilling.
I would direct TV. That’s a little different. It’s more of a contained world as a director. When you’re doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you’re gone. And it’s hard. It’s hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It’s hard.
At Bayern, the bar is set very high, and we all know how to deal with it. We live with that amount of pressure every day, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to maintain our level of performances.
There’s the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you’ll maybe never ship. There’s a point that’s good enough. But I do think that there’s so much competition out there that if you don’t hit the quality bar, the product will just fail.
The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
I’m always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we’ve made before. We don’t always succeed at doing that by any means, but we’re always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that’s hard.
The uneven bars make me especially nervous because when you stop training, you lose sense of where the bar is going to be.
I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn’t know whether to go back.
Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you’ll get rusty.
I’m like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.
The World Cup is a unique event. When you see a blue shirt in a bar or in a pub, you immediately think of Italy. Scoring for your nation was a wonderful experience.
I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don’t go to the showbiz parties.
I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.
The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it’s tough to top.
