John Oates Quotes
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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[Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
