John Oates Quotes

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

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• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Believe In Yourself

• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Art
  • Myself

• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Experience
  • History
  • Law

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Body

• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Teacher
  • Public
  • Office

• A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

  

  David Means
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  

  Chuck D
  • World
  • Music

• Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

  

  Josh McDermitt
  • Music
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Music
  • Different