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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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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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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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
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George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
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We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
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I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
