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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Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
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The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for 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.
