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.
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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.
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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.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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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.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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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.
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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.'
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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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.
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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.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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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.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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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.
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We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
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Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
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Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
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I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.
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My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.
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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.
