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
  • Know
  • 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
  • People
  • 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

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Me
  • California

• 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
  • Parents
  • 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
  • You
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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
  • Song
  • Moments
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• There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Me
  • Things
  • Some

• 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
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Moments

• To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Pray
  • Kingdom

• 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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