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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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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I talk a lot. I'm very decisive.
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I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
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I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots.
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Most fan have been like, "You're a monster, you give me nightmares, don't talk to me."
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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.
