Warren Zevon Quotes
I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.
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Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.
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I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.
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I think it's important to have mystique.
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I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.
