John Oates Quotes
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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I love girl power.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.
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Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
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There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
