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 love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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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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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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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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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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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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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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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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My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.
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We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
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The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
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Most people know my music but will never read my books.
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We give our deadTo the orchardsAnd the groves.We give our deadTo life.
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It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.
