John Oates Quotes

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Emotional
  • Attachment

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Today

• I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.

  

  Iman
  • Different
  • Writing
  • American

• I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

• In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Strong

• I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • You
  • Wish
  • Lifetime

• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Lady

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Family
  • Science

• If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • God
  • Rain
  • Girlfriend

• Crouching down inside a deep ravine,Those angry cries pass quickly by, he can't be seen.So many ways spent hiding in so many undone plans;Forgetting what it's like to fight when no one understands.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Deep
  • Angry

• Ginger: I can't do this, Lois! I can't go out with a woman who has a child! I'm too young, I tell you! I haven't sown my oats yet!Lois: I think your oats are impacted.

  

  Alison Bechdel

• I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• Strong female leads make more of an impact in the U.K. than in Denmark.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Strong

• My friends make me laugh: funny Instagram videos, but mostly people falling over. It's so bad, but it never gets old. I just love how people cover up their falls. The whole experience of 'Oh, I just fell, and I'm going to run out of the fall and pretend I did this on purpose.' I just like to see how people cover up their mishaps.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I believe that every human being endowed with intelligence, memory, and strength of character bears within him a little of thc supernatural as well. The highest purpose of the conductor is to release this superhuman potential in every one of his musicians.

  

  Charles Munch
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Purpose

• I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Lie
  • Heal
  • Wounds

• From 1911 to 1928, the country was officially called Republic of China, but in reality, it was actually split between different warlords. It was one of the liveliest periods in Chinese history. It is therefore quite theatrical, and it is good for making films.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Country

• I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

  

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