"You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard."
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"There is often times when I'm in a bar or after a show, and a woman just grabs my head and shoves it into her cleavage, or grabs my ass, or something like that which - don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining, but it's just interesting. It's just interesting that that occurs."
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"There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending."
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"I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you."
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"Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex."
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"An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?""
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"Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience."
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"By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood."
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"Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere."
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"A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away"
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"Although I love the taste of Nutrageous bars, I am nutraged at their new, high price."
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"I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back ."
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"I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else."
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"I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high."
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"I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly."
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"I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard."
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"I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe."
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"Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar."
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"I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio."
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"In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars."
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