Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Let us have peace.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
