Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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I think celebrities suck.
