John Oates Quotes

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Money
  • History
  • Guy

• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Serious

• Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • World
  • Government

• I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Way
  • Top
  • Wacky

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Real
  • Movies
  • Emotions

• I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Wife

• If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • You
  • Someone
  • Sweetness

• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Enough
  • Within
  • Dinosaurs

• The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Secret
  • Events

• When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Death
  • Light

• Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Hollywood

• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

  

  Khalil Gibran

• Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

  

  John Bevere
  • Spiritual
  • Maturity
  • Obedience

• You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Environment
  • Care
  • Healthy

• I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates