Barometer Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Barometer Quotes from famous authors such as Jane Siberry, Sam Worthington, Parvathy, Peter Higgs, James Wan. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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I think, because I’m an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It’s in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
Jane Siberry
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that’s a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That’s my job.
Sam Worthington
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We should release films without revealing the director’s name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.
Parvathy
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My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn’t make it work.
Peter Higgs
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there’s a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.
James Wan
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Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you’re doing. It’s rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
Andy Grammer
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Your energy is a barometer for your passion.
Caroline Ghosn
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When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it’s working or not. The barometer is overt.
Shawn Levy
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I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don’t know, but he’s my moral barometer.
John Cho
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
Wendy Kopp
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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director’s hat is only trying to justify his position.
Gary Oldman
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
Daniel Barenboim
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Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.
Tiger Woods
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There’s only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that’s the box office. The obsession with box office doesn’t annoy me. It’s the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you’re in trouble.
Akshaye Khanna
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I just try to write literally what I love. That’s usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I’m like, ‘what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?’
Leigh Whannell
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Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
Jared Kushner
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
James Wan
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement – depending on people – will be judged on where they come out on that question.
Bayard Rustin
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I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country.
Sebastian Maniscalco
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I think what makes us human – is our interconnectedness among people. It’s our ability to form and maintain relationships. It’s the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
Thomas Jane
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I just believe if you don’t believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That’s just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.
Steve Harvey
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As a kid in the eighties, I didn’t need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school – white shirt, plaid skirt – so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn’t come cheap.
Gillian Flynn
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There’s no replacement for a live crowd. The fans are our barometer – whether they love something or hate it, they will let you know.
Big E
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You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the audience. What you have to try and do is that when there is something that could be seen as a transgression, you actually have a reason to justify the joke.
Nish Kumar
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
David Hare
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There’s been times where I’ve come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I’ve lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I’m going to pitch.
Tim Wakefield
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Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
Steven Tyler
29
If we were to use the success of ‘Need You Now’ as the barometer for every other song, then we’ll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
Charles Kelley
30
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
Barbra Streisand
31
I think television’s become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.
Tom Petty
32
The perception that if you’re not on ‘Top Of The Pops’ you’re dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because ‘TOTP’ is a catalyst or barometer for pop success.
Gilbert O’Sullivan
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling