John Oates Quotes
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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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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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
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As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.
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You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
