Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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There's no business like show business.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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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.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
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Cannot find the comfort in this world.
