John Oates Quotes
I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.
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Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.
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We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
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I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.
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My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
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I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
