Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
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We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
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That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
