Edwin Jackson Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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I've always been a guy who goes against everything people say.
