"You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei"

-- Amy Tan

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Think For Yourself Quotes

“There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.”
“Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.”
“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.”
“I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.”
“I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.”
“The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.”
“I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.”
“Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.”

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