John Amos Quotes
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old-hell, not even growing up.
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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
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We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.
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On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
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I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
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Learn from your unhappy customers.
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I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.
