Shawn Amos (Shawn Ellis Amos) Quotes

We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

Shawn Amos

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Life
  • Book
  • Bible

• Men are irrelevant.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Men
  • Irrelevant

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Play
  • Taught

• The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Today
  • Problem

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't love it, and I wouldn't just wear something because someone put me in it.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Love
  • Me
  • Feel

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mind
  • She
  • Dark

• Like 'Metro' and 'Motor,' 'Troublemaker' is written in first person. The only narration that happens is Barney speaking to the reader/thinking in her head. First person was a big challenge in the graphic novel because we want both men and women of all ages to enjoy 'Troublemaker.'

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

  

  Dawn Steel

• People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • House
  • English

• I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Family

• One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional!

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Interesting
  • Professional

• If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Respect

• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  

  Gail Zappa
  • People
  • Memories
  • Photograph

• I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Culture

• I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

  

  Big Sean
  • Good
  • Song
  • Heartfelt

• When God gives me a song, it’s always my prayer that it blesses His people. Then there are times when you see your music speak to the troubled times.

  

  Kurt Carr
  • Song
  • Prayer
  • Blesses

• We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Song
  • Problem
  • Singing