Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

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• I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

  

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• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

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• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  

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• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

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• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

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• I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

  

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• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

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• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

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• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

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• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

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• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

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• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  

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• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

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• Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

  

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• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  

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• The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

  

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• I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.

  

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• My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

  

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• You don't let it be a distraction. That is not what you do. There are going to be things that happen and you don't focus on those things. You focus on getting the football team ready to play and you handle the other things up front the way we do it.

  

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• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment