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'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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People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.
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My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
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I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
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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.
