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

• 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

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

  

  Paracelsus
  • May
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams

• 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

• 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

• The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Way
  • Best
  • Meditation

• 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

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Worth It
  • Not Worth It

• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Performance

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• I prefer being totally sober myself.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Sober

• You could be an 18-year-old girl in Tokyo wondering how you could ever break into fashion or beauty, so you follow your favourite designer or editor, see what their day comprises, where they go, who they meet, how they do it... If I were setting up my own label today, I would definitely do it through Instagram.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Fashion
  • Designer
  • Wondering

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Music
  • Play
  • Sounds

• As a young man, my greatest inspiration was [flamenco singer] Camaron de la Isla, no doubt. That was the best time of my life I would say. I learned so much and matured in this period. Later, my collaboration with Chick Corea, John [McLaughlin] and Al [Di Meola] in the guitar trio was something very special. I was very afraid in the beginning how to play with these fine musicians. But I found my way and I'm sure their playing also changed my music a lot.

  

  Paco de Lucía
  • Music
  • Play
  • Inspiration

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

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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