James F. Amos Quotes
You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
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I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of third world dictators. And neither of those do I find an enjoyable exercise.
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You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.
