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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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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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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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn’t anything mean about him. I didn’t understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.
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We should have an easier name to pronounce.
