Travis Barker Quotes

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Man
  • Old Man

• I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • War

• You can't live your life through your children.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

  

  Nas
  • Artist
  • Rapper
  • Anybody

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I have a darker imagination than most people.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Most

• And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

  

  Haniel Long
  • Go
  • Through
  • U.S.

• In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Perfect
  • Improvement
  • Trends

• I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Success
  • Lucky
  • Deserve

• Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art

• An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

  

  Aeschines
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Community

• Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Suicide

• I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that's a crazy idea. That's what got us so excited.

  

  JC Chasez NSYNC
  • Kids
  • Girl
  • Crazy

• I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

  

  Jared Harris

• Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • God
  • Light

• For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Error
  • Conquers
  • Free Town

• I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Steely Dan