Amos Lee Quotes
As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.
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Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.
