John Oates Quotes
I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
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I would hope that American managers - indeed, managers worldwide - continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than 'making deals.' Management affects people and their lives.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
