#cause

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#behind #car #doing #driving #housework

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be. ↗

— Adam Oates

#boss #coach #communication #feedback #hypocrite

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. ↗

— John Oates

#because #difference #different #each #easy

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me. ↗

— Adam Oates

#drafted #gas #going #had #high

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then. ↗

— Adam Oates

#bad guy #because #good #good person #guy

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. ↗

— John Oates

#getting #good #good material #i #i think

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good. ↗

— Johnny Oates

#big #big leagues #good #got #how

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#because #doing #during #erase #her

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. ↗

— Barack Obama

#class #cut #economy #families #i