Jeff Ament Quotes

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

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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.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Space
  • Walk
  • Irony

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Returns

• 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.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Problem
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Painting

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• 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!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Fire

• 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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Family
  • May
  • Business

• Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Different
  • Fall
  • See

• I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sexy

• Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Teacher
  • Service
  • Wants

• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Food
  • Light

• When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life

• By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.

  

  Christopher Fowler
  • Time
  • School
  • Money

• I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up because it's your own commentary and you get to see the reaction from the audience that's right there in front of you. I also love coming up with characters and watching people embrace them and enjoy them.

  

  Kam Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

  

  Jeff Ament