Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
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I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let past failures or dire economic forecasts make you a pessimist. Keep your youthful dreams alive and create your own opportunities.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
