Warren Zevon Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.
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I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
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Mugliando sopra il mar va il gregge bianco.
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I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
