Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
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Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
