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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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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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.
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If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
