Barakat Quotes & Sayings

Wrestling is very similar to gay sex, but you don't have to wear condoms. — Jack Barakat

I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded. — Jack Barakat

I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume, and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band. — Jack Barakat

Basketball Rule #1

In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court. — Kwame Alexander

I don't love playing new songs in a festival environment. Because when it comes to a festival a lot of people probably won't know your band really well at all so playing more familiar songs is a little more conducive in having a better show. — Jack Barakat

My band and I are brothers. Nothing can break us. With it 'till the end. — Jack Barakat

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle. — Jack Barakat

We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective. — Barack Obama

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches. — Kit Bond

You don't always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That's life. — Jack Barakat

Boring is a syndrome of being to simple. — Deyth Banger

Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week. — Jack Barakat

Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends. — Jack Barakat

The recording process [ for 'Dirty Work'] took longer than anticipated, because we kept going on tour in between the recording process to make sure that we were still pleasing all the fans across the world. — Jack Barakat

Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest. — Jack Barakat

To Alef, the letter
that begins the alphabets
of both Arabic and Hebrew-
two Semitic languages,
sisters for centuries.
May we find the language
that takes us
to the only home there is -
one another's hearts.
...
Alef knows
That a thread
Of a story
Stitches together
A wound. — Ibtisam Barakat

I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar. — Jack Barakat

I'm sorry! I just ... I have this thing about opening stuff. I see a door or a lid that's closed, I just gotta open it! Our family therapist says I'm obsessive-compulsive. — Gary Whitta

I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts. — Jack Barakat

I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes? — Jack Barakat

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere. — Anne Wojcicki

What I do know is, I never plan on growing up inside. — Jack Barakat

Hey Bieber, I had the initials JB first.. Where's my 15%? — Jack Barakat

I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison]. — Jack Barakat

Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right. — Jack Barakat

Do what makes you happy, think later. — Jack Barakat

I have so much freedom to put whatever I want on a t-shirt, and it's cool because I get a lot of fan feedback so I like to see what kids like to wear and I like to use some of their ideas to make t-shirts. — Jack Barakat

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less. — Francis Ford Coppola

I've never been to New Zealand, but I can imagine it's beautiful. I don't know much about New Zealand ... but I do know that I did watch 'Lord Of The Rings' so it looks really pretty. — Jack Barakat

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live. — Jack Barakat

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants. — Jack Barakat

Redemption was asking too much, but he could hope. Something told him he'd still be seeking absolution when he took his last breath on some distant day. — Kelly Moran

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though]. — Jack Barakat

I feel like blue jeans are kind of too 'country' for me. — Jack Barakat

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ibn al-Khatib says: Ibn Battutah has a modest share of the sciences. He journeyed to the East in the month of Rajab 725 [1325], travelled through its lands, penetrated into Iraq al-Ajam, then entered India, Sind and China, and returned through Yemen. In India, the king appointed him to the office of qadi. He came away later and returned to the Maghrib [ ... ]. Our Shaykh Abu l-Barakat Ibn al-Balfiqi told us of many strange things which Ibn Battutah had seen. Among them was that he claimed to have entered Constantinople and to have seen in its church twelve thousands bishops. He subsequently crossed the Strait to the Spanish coast [ ... ]. Thereafter the ruler of Fez summoned him and commanded him to commit his travels to writing. — Tim Mackintosh-Smith