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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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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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life.
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I think that a lot of the most talented and driven people, they're not super deterred by failure. So if you put out a really big challenge, I think they get reality excited by that - they say, 'Hey, why not, let's go give it a shot, and if we fall short on that, at least we took a shot at doing something really important and meaningful.'
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
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I've always been a guy who goes against everything people say.
