Warren Zevon Quotes
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
