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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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more.
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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.
