John Oates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Hizbullah is not a militia.
-
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
-
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
-
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
-
I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
-
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
-
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
-
I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
-
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
-
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
-
It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
-
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
-
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
-
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
-
I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
-
Men create the gods in their own image.
-
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
-
I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
-
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
-
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
-
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
-
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
