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You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam. -- Brian Posehn
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. -- Confucius
By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor. -- Charles A. Lockwood
The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl. -- Surya Das
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. -- Jerry Della Femina
Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans! -- Scott Steiner
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor. -- S. I. Hayakawa
I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them. -- Joey Jordison
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. -- Jeff Ament
The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet. -- Jerry Costello
I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor -- GZA
The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered. -- James Lafferty
I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor. -- Robert Kennedy
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. -- Kenneth Tynan
Montreal, this wonderful town"¦ Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. -- Alexander Dubcek
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack, -- Leon Panetta
It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor. -- Jamie Gorelick
U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor. -- Edward Teller
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. -- A. O. Scott
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. -- Phyllis Diller
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street. -- Joe Eszterhas
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. -- Gary Cherone
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. -- Mahalia Jackson
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. -- Eddie Vedder
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. -- Gore Vidal
No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class. -- Jarod Kintz
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. -- Jack Adams
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. -- Gloria Steinem
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead! -- Clive James
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated. -- Barry Humphries
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. -- Dan Rather
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. -- Noam Chomsky
We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. -- Tre Cool
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! -- John Belushi
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam. -- Jack Irons
We're super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play. -- Stone Gossard
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could. -- Nate Ruess
We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family. -- Stone Gossard
The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor. -- Dave Barry
I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. -- Kurt Cobain
Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. -- Joey Ramone
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I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie. -- Ellie Goulding
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. -- Barney Ross
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. -- Ronald Reagan
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism. -- Michael Bay
The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that. -- Hafez
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. -- J. G. Ballard
It was great. No one else had one but me." Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl. -- Jennifer Bowers Bahney
It was great. No one else had one but me." Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl -- Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. -- Joe Baca
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it. -- Michael Bay
'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar. -- Mark Salling
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave. -- Edward Hirsch
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that. -- David Suzuki
Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die? -- Christopher Titus
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. -- Jack Adams
I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. -- Akiva Schaffer
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians. -- Jack Irons
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots. -- Diane Watson
I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver. -- GZA
Pearl I am not nor do I claim to be___if the Lord blessed this tiniest droplet in Thy ocean of love, what a glorious life this would be. -- Jamil Hussain
While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school. -- Art Buchwald
We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack. -- Fred Thompson
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. -- Joe Baca
Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle. -- Jon Gruden
I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same. -- Winston Churchill
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. -- William Manchester
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. -- John Lasseter
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.' -- Jeff Ament
We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition. -- Malcolm X
For lips, I'm into mauves, and I like a little shimmer. I have this Dior lip gloss I love right now called Pearl. It's pink and has shimmer. I don't like anything overdone. -- Brittany Snow
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. -- John Yoo
With a metal heartI came to this life,My head was a crucible, full of elixir.Pearl by pearlMy heart was poured,Drop by dropMy head was splashed.The world was entirely a magnet. -- Hersh Saeed
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started. -- Tom Stoppard
Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought. -- Warren Buffett
Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base. -- Nicholson Baker
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone. -- Noam Chomsky
Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. -- Leon Askin
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. -- Mona Charen
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom. -- Johnny Depp
9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years. -- Jonathan Powell
I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head. -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky. -- Stephen Hunter
Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. -- Chad Smith
I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing. -- Warren Buffett
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain. -- St. Vincent
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded. -- Bobby Fischer
Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. -- Jerry Della Femina
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. -- Steve Forbes
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success. -- Chuichi Nagumo
Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well. -- Christian McBride
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind. -- Oliver North
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. -- Jeff Ament
It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. -- Kami Garcia
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. -- Samuel Rutherford
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat. -- Preet Bharara
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise. -- Cameron Crowe
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other. -- Stone Gossard
But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. -- Sam Donaldson
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys. -- Chris Pratt
My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. -- Sigourney Weaver
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. -- John Henrik Clarke
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. -- Frank Gaffney
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. -- George Will
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center. -- Newt Gingrich
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody. -- Malcolm X
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high -- Hideki Tojo
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. -- Hideki Tojo
People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks. -- Steve Diggle
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. -- Debbie Macomber
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga. -- Jim Wright
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few." -- Debbie Macomber

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