Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
 
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	Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.   
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	We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.   
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	I've lived in New York for a really long time.   
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	Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?   
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	It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.   
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	When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.   
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	Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.   
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	Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.   
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	Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.   
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	I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.   
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	Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.   
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	If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.   
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	I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.   
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	There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.   
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	I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.   
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	If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.   
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	Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.   
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	Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.   
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	We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.   
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	Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.   
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	I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word.   
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	The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.   
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	The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					