Jeff Ament Quotes
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.
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There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'
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Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
