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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
-
All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
-
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.
-
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
-
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
-
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
-
I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
-
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
-
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
-
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
-
Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
-
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
-
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
-
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
-
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
-
If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
-
Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
-
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.
