Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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Photography is an accident.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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Healing is a moral thing to do.
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The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.
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I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.
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The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
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The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
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The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.
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I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn't feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.
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But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.
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It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must believe that He is growing in our lives; we must believe it so firmly that we cannot help relating everything, literally everything, to this almost incredible reality.
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I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
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Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?
