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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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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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
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I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
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I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.
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I love the fact that Facebook offers equal leave for moms and dads. Consider that for your company.
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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.
