Jeff Ament Quotes
Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.
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As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
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The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
