Jeff Ament Quotes
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.
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I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
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I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
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Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do I abhor?' Intellectuals can also answer the question of 'What flag do I wave?' without having to answer the question of 'What flag do I burn.'
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In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
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I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.
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America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.
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All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
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The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
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At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.
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Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
