John Oates Quotes
My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
Quotes to Explore
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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My education was very tough.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew.
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Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
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I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.
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My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
