Travis Barker Quotes

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

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• Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

  

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• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

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• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

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• The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

  

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

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• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

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• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

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• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

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• I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.

  

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• When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

  

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• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

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• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

  

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• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

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• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

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• I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

  

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• I've got good speed off the edge.

  

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• This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.

  

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• I can play a song for somebody, and when certain parts come on, I cringe. I might not like my vocal or the way I sang a certain word. Playing intimate shows is when I feel the most vulnerable; you can hear and see everything. Those are the most rewarding as well.

  

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• If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.

  

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• I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
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