Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
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I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.
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Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
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As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
