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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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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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I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
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There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary to get a great education, or you can attempt to require it of him.
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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.
