Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

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• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
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• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
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• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
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• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  

  Tate Taylor
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• I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
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• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
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• Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.

  

  Gail Collins
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• Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  

  Harold Pinter
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  • Known
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• I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.

  

  Xavi
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• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

  

  John Cornyn
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• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
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• Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.

  

  Alan Sparhawk
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• When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.

  

  Farrah Gray
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• I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Thinking

• We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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