Warren Zevon Quotes
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
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I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present themselves, they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.
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Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
