John Oates Quotes
There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
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I know what poverty is.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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To be haunted by my heart is no threat.
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The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
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We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.
