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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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.
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That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
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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.
