Amelia Barr Quotes

A good message will always find a messenger.

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• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Good
  • Music
  • I Can

• Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • May
  • Want
  • Question

• I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Job
  • Control

• I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Up
  • Writing
  • War

• Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Country

• My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Men
  • Party
  • Sea

• I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Art
  • Listening

• Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Positive
  • Love Is
  • Negative

• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Real
  • Song

• Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Nice
  • Mad

• In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Law
  • Views
  • Coward

• I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Life
  • Theatre
  • Literally

• What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Maintained

• The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Different
  • War
  • Speak

• People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  

  M. S. Golwalkar
  • Long
  • Country
  • Children

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.

  

  Peter Furler Newsboys
  • Life
  • Song
  • Message

• A good message will always find a messenger.

  

  Amelia Barr
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