Arj Barker Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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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.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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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.
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?
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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.
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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.
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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…
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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
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I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.
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Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
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It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.
