Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
