Barry S. Strauss Quotes
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it.
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I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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I'll tell you right nowAny trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find...
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Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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I love playing baseball, and I always promised myself, if I had the chance, that I would work as hard as I could to be the best player I could possibly be.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.
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I want to put out music I really believe in, and when I felt that was threatened, I lashed out at everybody.
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I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.
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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
