Travis Barker Quotes

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

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• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Police
  • Force
  • Obvious

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Day
  • Myself

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Man
  • Society
  • Doubt

• Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells

• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Experience
  • History
  • Myself

• I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Important

• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Political

• When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind

• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Children

• Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Up
  • Dad

• when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Long

• I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Great
  • Fool

• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Society

• I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Up

• With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the 'dangers' of windmills.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Growing

• It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Fool
  • Common
  • Rapper