John Oates Quotes
The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twentyAnd oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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I think as people listen to the album more it'll become its own thing more, but it'll also become apparent how much we've plagiarised. To me, really, at the end of our album we should've had a bibliography.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.
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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
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The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
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The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
