Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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If I'm dehydrated, my muscles feel almost squeaky.
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It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
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Online bullying has to stop.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.
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It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.
