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
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • She
  • Mother

• A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Life
  • Fool

• Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Money
  • Die
  • Sick

• Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Defend
  • Attacking

• No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.

  

  John Adams
  • Life
  • Men
  • Free

• Questioning is the piety of thought.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Thought
  • Questioning
  • Piety

• 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