Jeff Ament Quotes
I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
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I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
