John Oates Quotes
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
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I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.
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They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion.
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Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
