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John Oates Quotes

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1948

Topics

Friends Country Blues Everything Pop

My imagination was no competition for nature.

Nature Imagination Competition

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Value American Privacy Personal Held

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

Character Man Looks Sometimes Actor

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

Amitabh Bachchan

Great War Body Through Been Zone

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

Boss Decisions Down Go Movies Will

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature Knowledge Man Me World Learn

One of the things that's so interesting when talking to minority founders specifically is that there is really a knowledge gap in understanding what the risk-reward profile is for doing a startup.

Knowledge Interesting Doing Talking

I gave a lot for football because I wanted to be as professional as possible.

Football Professional Possible Wanted

We live in a visual world now.

Live World Now Visual

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.

Christopher Markus

Think See Because Get Would Changed

I'm not the fastest player, but you can't really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can't play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I'll back them down. I'm a good post player.

Chauncey Billups

Good Me Enough You Down Play

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Opportunity You Security Achieve

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