John Oates Quotes
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
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What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
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One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
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Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
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I like stepping out of my comfort zone.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Watchmen # 1
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Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.
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When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
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I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
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Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.
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Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.
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I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
