Jeff Ament Quotes

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Food
  • Pet
  • Cats

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • You
  • Chance
  • Analyst

• It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Myself

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • More
  • Difference

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • May
  • Full

• Nothing really compares to the original 'Law & Order.'

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Law
  • Really
  • Compares

• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Control
  • Democracy

• I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Power
  • Best

• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Attention

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Power