Matt Cameron Quotes
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.
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I have an immigrant mentality, which is that the job can be taken away at any time, so make sure you earn it every day...immigrants come here they have no safety net-zero. I landed here with $500 in my pocket. I had no one here to pay for me.
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The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.
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We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
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I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.
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Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.
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If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
