Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
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I'm not an expert, but I want to be.
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I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
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I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
