Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Quotes to Explore
-
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
-
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.
-
To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
-
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
-
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.
-
Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
-
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
-
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
-
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
-
I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
-
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.
-
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.
-
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
-
I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
-
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.
-
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
-
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
-
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
-
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
-
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
-
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
