Jeff Ament Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?
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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
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People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.
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We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.
