Paul Oakenfold (Oakenfold) Quotes
It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
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I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
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I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
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When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.
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It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
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I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
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I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.
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People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.
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Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
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I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
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People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.
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Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.
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I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.
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I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.
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It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.
