John Oates Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I love receiving fan mail.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of 'Girl Online.' I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book!
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.
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I love video.
Chad Hurley -
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
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Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.
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My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.