Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam

• Think
• Pretend
• Don't Love

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• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Revolution
  • New
  • New York

• My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Car
  • Waiting

• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Voice

• She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Great
  • Long
  • She

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Find

• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Building
  • Now

• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Know

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Capitalism
  • Injustice

• Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Development
  • Africa

• I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Day

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Father
  • Think
  • Son

• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Free
  • Constitution

• I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Father
  • Think
  • Myself

• You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Pretend
  • Don't Love