Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.
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When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
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Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
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How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
