Amos Lee Quotes

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

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• I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Reading

• If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Small

• I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Dad
  • Actor
  • Problems

• We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Harmony

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Music
  • Impossible
  • Silent

• I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Never
  • Dance
  • Thought

• At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Relationships
  • Insecurity

• Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Today
  • Free

• There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Nature
  • Jump

• Call it not paranoia, but caution.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman

• In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store of books he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children - picture books, primers, readers - for they had known that their little child would be old enough for such before they might hope to return to England.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Children
  • Home
  • Hope

• The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Failure

• I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• If you're asking me what I love, it's that point where I'm just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying to outrage myself. Getting in that frame of mind where the more you laugh the more you laugh - I think that's what I'm attempting to do.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Mind
  • I Love
  • Laugh

• I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will work out. That's what drives me. I'm not looking for legacy or history books or whatever. I know what we've done here has saved a significant number of lives. The burden is not on me. It's on the politicians who made the decisions to limit what we're doing. They're the ones who are going to pay a price, in my judgment, if crime significantly increases.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Book
  • Mean
  • Decision

• I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

  

  Amos Lee