Paul Oakenfold (Oakenfold) Quotes

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

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• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

  

  Adam Oates
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  • Family
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• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

  Aaron Yoo
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• I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

  

  Gale Harold
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• I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

  

  Gail Porter
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• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
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• Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Comedy
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• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Good
  • Live
  • History

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • First

• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • Family
  • Church

• Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Know
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• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Life
  • Time

• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Children
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• I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Music
  • Theatre

• I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Fly

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Information

• The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering

• At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Aim
  • Cinema

• When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

  

  Paul Oakenfold
  • Work
  • Best
  • Studio