Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I don't like attacking.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?
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The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
