John Oates Quotes
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter -
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys -
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. Wilson -
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle -
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes -
I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
Manika
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
Walter Dean Myers -
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Tariq Ramadan -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison -
Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
Cara Delevingne -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter -
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith -
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Iris Chang
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Jack Canfield -
You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself!
Eric Thomas -
I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.
Anna Kendrick -
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
Walter Annenberg -
I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.
Tabitha Suzuma -
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
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