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.Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
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.
Ian McShane -
I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
Hannah Storm -
I've always been a rough kid.
Daniel Cormier -
I don't believe in miracles.
Sam Simon -
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.
J. J. Watt
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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.
A. R. Ammons -
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
Damon Galgut -
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.
Kaskade -
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
Vernon Howard -
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
Iman -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
Talulah Riley -
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.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
Gary Johnson -
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
Hanna Rosin -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
P. J. Harvey
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Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new.
Nick Gordon -
Twilio is a great example of a company executing tremendously well on its vision and delivering a beautiful set of products that solves real problems.
David Cohen -
For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision.
Queen Noor of Jordan -
Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I am sure, millions of people living in Japan have an urge to get to know each other, cooperate and exchange useful information, as well as a sincere desire that all problems that still remain unresolved be resolved.
Vladimir Putin -
I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.
William Friedkin -
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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam