John Oates Quotes
With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.
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If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty.
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I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.
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I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
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A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
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With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
