Joel Barlow Quotes

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Joel Barlow

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • You
  • Big

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Support
  • Understand

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Up
  • Blood
  • Media

• Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • King
  • President
  • Demand

• I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Caring

• I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Up
  • Year
  • Rights

• The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Job
  • Reality
  • Prohibition

• The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Kill
  • Scares
  • Amazon

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tennis

• If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Star
  • Difficult
  • Street

• I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • People
  • Cool
  • Neighborhood

• You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Diamond

• We are in need of new concepts... which reorient our way of looking at the world to encompass present and future changes. I believe in the predominant framework for modern corporation... the corporation is viewed as a resource-conversion entity, taking raw material and converting tme into products, with dollars measuring the transaction. Returns are provided to owners in the form of dividends or capital appreciation in the marketplace.

  

  R. Edward Freeman
  • Concepts
  • Corporation
  • Dividends

• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

  

  Joel Barlow