Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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The truth sustains me.
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I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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No one it seems is willing to play by the rules. The original builders overlooked orthodoxy (Islamic), and modern devotees overlook unwanted historical associations, both in order to shape the Taj according to their own desires.
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There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.
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As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
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Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
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At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
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Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.
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Lest we forget, when Europe goes far right, they go far right through Belgium.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.
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There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
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I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.
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The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.
