Paul Oakenfold (Oakenfold) Quotes
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
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I love physicality. I love movement very much.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.
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Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.
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It's strange being famous. People think they know you.
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Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.
