Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Preparation

• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

  

  Paracelsus
  • May
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams

• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Choice
  • Options

• With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• He who awaits much can expect little.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Expect
  • Little
  • Much

• I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Fight

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Leadership

• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Wife

• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • May
  • Black

• Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Group
  • The Prunes

• Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Really, those 60 minutes when I am on the field is my time to enjoy myself, and I don't have to worry about anything, play the game that I love.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Game
  • Play
  • Worry

• Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?

  

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