Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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A novel is not a rant.
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We just here to do our job.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.
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'Morality, Religion And Bullsh*T: An Interview With Penn Jillette' by Ryan Shaffer, at the American Humanist Association (December 2012)
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
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If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
