Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I love my sleep.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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I have oatmeal every morning with whole milk, bananas, and cinnamon, and it's just the best thing ever.
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Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.
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Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.
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We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.
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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.
