Warren Zevon Quotes
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
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Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
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It's so funny: I sort of fell into genre roles, but I'm not really a genre guy.
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At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
