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.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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  • School
  • Bad

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Go
  • Industrial

• 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.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Small
  • Space

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
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  • Father
  • North Carolina

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Love
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
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  • America
  • Help

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

  Kat Dennings
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  • Black
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Jack Falahee
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  • Different
  • Guy

• Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

  

  Action Bronson
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  • Music
  • Know

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Kind
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Carly Chaikin
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  • Work
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Children
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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  • Good
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
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  • Children
  • Father

• As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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  • War
  • Growing

• I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.

  

  Brandon Webb
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  • Sea
  • Hunting

• With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
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  • Writing
  • Fun

• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Survival

• I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.

  

  Warren Zevon
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