Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
Quotes to Explore
-
My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
-
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
-
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
-
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
-
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
-
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
-
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
-
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
-
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
-
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
-
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
-
I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
-
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
-
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
-
There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
-
Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
-
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
-
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
-
You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.
-
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
-
Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.
-
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.
-
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
-
It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
