Jeff Ament Quotes
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
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Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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Christina Stead has a Chinese say, 'Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us'-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.
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Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
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It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
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I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.
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I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
