John Oates Quotes

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

John Oates

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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

Jesmyn Ward

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One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

Jessica Chastain

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You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Jennie Finch

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I wish I had time to listen to music more.

John Edgar Wideman

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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

John Cheever

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The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

Rob Simmons

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I don't vacation on the water. I'm a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I'm a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there's great drama out there.

Ron Howard

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If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.

Martin Rees

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I like to go to places where you can relax a little after you're done working.

Ming Xi

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The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to be in the Executive Branch. You have to be elected to be in the Legislative Branch, but anybody can go into court.

Dick Morris

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We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Allen Weinstein

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When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel.

Woody Harrelson

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