Jeff Ament Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
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Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
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Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
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Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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Man should know from this rule that he is cut off from truth.
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That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
