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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Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.
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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.
