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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England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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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.
