Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
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I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
