John Oates Quotes
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
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Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
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When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.
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I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.
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I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
