Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
People want a remarkable experience; it’s what they’ll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many companies.
When I was at uni, our whole college bar would gather around the quiz machine for a few games every night.
Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.
I danced for, like, 11 years at bar mitzvahs and executive parties. I’m a professional energy producer. I produce energy, baby.
I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on the keyboard.
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
A bar is a factory, a marketing organization, and a service organization all in one.
Most of the time, if someone gives me trouble at a bar or something, saying, ‘Why do you hate the Red Sox or Patriots?’ they end up buying you a drink or whatever. They like to be heard, say their piece, and then talk about the team.
I had the best season, probably of my career, when I first arrived and then the second year I was still top scorer. I then went through a little stage of… when you have set that bar so high, then everybody expects it every week that goes by.
Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you’ve got a delicious treat.
Posing on the red carpet feels like you’re selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it’s like we’re saying, ‘Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We’re available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!’
Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste is pretty diverse.
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
I’m simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.
Nothing means more to me than making the best music and me getting better as a writer and producer… I want you to know I work really hard. The bar is really high.
I think my peak 90s moment was posing on a Harley-Davidson outside the Met Bar with Wyclef Jean.
I often joke with my husband and say to him, ‘You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That’s all I know how to do.’ LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn’t expect too much from me.
If Madhur Bhandarkar makes a movie tomorrow, people will expect him to do something like ‘Chandni Bar’ or ‘Corporate!’ Similarly, it takes time for filmmakers to break that stereotype and attempt something new – it is difficult for filmmakers to be versatile in Bollywood.
I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
‘The Conjuring’ was a massive success, and honestly, it set the bar quite high. So I was nervous about making the sequel, and I wasn’t sure if it will still have the same impact as the first one did. But that’s what moved me to make the sequel.
I’m a homebody, I’d rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.
My mom’s a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They’ve always worked.
All of my friends on the street we’re Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.
‘Cheers’ was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.
It’s hilarious, because my guitar has what’s known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
I had to find a way to get off the streets because it was too windy. So I started organizing variety shows of street performers. I would rent a hall, cafe or bar so I could put on a show. I did that for years before the ‘Tonight Show With Johnny Carson’ heard about this odd thing I did with bubbles.
I’m not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there’s an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.
Federal election laws bar candidates from the ‘personal use’ of campaign donations – a ban meant to stop candidates from buying things unrelated to their runs for office. If a purchase is a result of campaign activity, the government allows it.
Being a Williams is not easy in this business because the bar is set very high to achieve success. Daddy set some high standards for all of us.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.
The whole point of a bar is, I look in your eyes, you look in my eyes, we’ve never met each other before, we talk, we get to know each other, have a drink together, and the great end of that story is we get married someday.
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered ‘Bar Mitzvah Ranch’ to sing ‘Home on the Range’ in Yiddish, it was his way of saying, ‘I want to be an American.’
I use the ‘Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow’ Palette every day. I’ve tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the ‘Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow’ Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don’t use anything else but ‘Urban Decay Perversion’ Mascara.
To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.
In-house bodies of lawyers i.e. the Bar Council, and of doctors i.e. the Medical Council have notoriously failed to seek accountability of lawyers and doctors who have been misconducting themselves.
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we’d leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we’d walk through the Plaza Mayor.
VR should offer an experience that’s more exciting than watching in 2D, and we’re pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar’s already pretty high.
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.
On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar – one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You’re out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You’re going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I’ll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.
When I started lifting weights, I remember I could barely bench the bar. I mean, I’m shaking all over the place, the bar’s falling, and I’m like, ‘I can’t lift 45 pounds,’ but it just goes to show how much work I put in.
Oh my god, this makes me laugh so much: I once saw this young woman fall in a bar in Chicago, and she got up and she’s like, ‘These dang Sketcher Shape-ups!’
Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.
You just get pickier. I think that’s true of everything. Money, toys, girls – all the hedonistic stuff. You just raise the bar.
I have an appearance on a new TV show called ‘Bar Karma’ on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It’s a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.
So, there’s like one luxury you take and since we do that, y’know, you’re involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.
I have never been married. I don’t know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why I have not married, I explain that my parents have been happily married for 42 years. The bar feels so very high for that kind of commitment.
My first job at Gleason’s Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
I’ve said this numerous times: I’ve been in the ring with Daniel Bryan, and he’s the best wrestler in the world, bar none.
Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you’re supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on.
