Amos Lee Quotes

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• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Know
  • Ignorance
  • Owe

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Goal
  • Accept

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Gay

• I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Think
  • Better
  • Size

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Career
  • Moments
  • Plan

• The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Sometimes

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  

  Larry King
  • Father
  • New York
  • Generosity

• I'll always be a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Always
  • Foreigner

• In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Long
  • American
  • Focus

• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Song
  • Myself
  • Silent

• Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Short
  • Eat

• The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Issues

• The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

  

  David Whyte
  • Death
  • Lion

• The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

  

  Paul Cezanne

• I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

  

  Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Think
  • Death
  • Minds

• I love vinyl, man.

  

  Amos Lee