"You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life."

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Source : "Exclusive: Amos Lee Gets Personal". Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 26, 2011.

Amos Lee

#Strong Quotes #Needs Quotes #Able Quotes

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.”
“Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt at communication appropriate. Celebrate the whole person.”
“Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.”
“This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.”
“A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.”
“But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”
“At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.”

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