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.
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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.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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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.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
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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.
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You can't live your life through your children.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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I have a darker imagination than most people.
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
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Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
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Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.
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She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.
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Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnt sing it for a while. Thats completely false. I am very proud of American Pie and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung American Pie for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.
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I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
