Warren Zevon Quotes

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
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  • Always
  • Artist

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Me

• One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

  

  Webb Simpson
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  • Thoughts
  • Tiger

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Love
  • Know

• For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Me
  • Being
  • Really

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Me

• I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

  

  Ram Charan
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  • Girl
  • Choose

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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  • Never

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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  • Me
  • Written

• But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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  • Somebody
  • Compete

• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Miracle

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Artist
  • Favorite
  • Gucci

• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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  • God
  • Mother

• I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.

  

  Adam DeVine
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  • Friends

• It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

  

  Warren Zevon
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