John Oates Quotes
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
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It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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We should have an easier name to pronounce.
