Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
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'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
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After the song for sausage Party was finally done, we didn't have enough time, but we thought it would be fun. It also would've thrown it off a bit, because we really are doing more of an homage to Pixar, and if we filled it with songs, it would've felt more like Disney. And we had an experience, while we were making it, that going too Disney made it too weird.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
