John Oates Quotes

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Red

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• I was raised doing martial arts.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Doing
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Arts

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • World
  • War
  • Boy

• I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Mind
  • Military
  • Dead

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Amazing

• If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

  

  Dawn Steel

• I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Game

• I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

  

  David Letterman
  • Great

• To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Great
  • Together
  • Amazing