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Adam Oates Quotes

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 27, 1962

Topics

Day Sleep Mom Story You Play

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Wisdom Age Power Control You Early

Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

Mother Girl School Me Thought Young

This is America, where everything is still possible.

America Possible Everything Where

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party.

Andrew Breitbart

Sad Book Political Party Hollywood

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Time You New Want Try Ask

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.

Change Business Music People Think

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Character I Can Way Difficult Novel

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.

Great Writing Care Easy Find Take

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

You Play Somewhere Facebook Higher

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

History Eyes Above Glorious Actions

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

School High School Tradition High

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

Change Home Time Grow You Person

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