Arj Barker Quotes

I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

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• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Lifestyle

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Boxing

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stand

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Freedom

• Life is never free of contradictions.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Life
  • Free
  • Never

• For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Life Is A
  • Sharp

• Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Smile

• I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • May
  • Feeling

• My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Life
  • Art
  • Career

• If you should ever leave me Though life would still go on, believe me The world could show nothing to me So what good would livin' do me God only knows what I'd be without you…

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Life
  • Black

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

  

  John Niven
  • School
  • Remember
  • Library

• What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.” His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.

  

  Katie MacAlister
  • Sacrifice
  • Creatures
  • Dragons

• I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

  

  Arj Barker
  • Life
  • Tolerance
  • Built