John Oates Quotes
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.
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He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.
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As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
