John Oates Quotes
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
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When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'
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France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time.
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The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.
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My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
