Warren Zevon Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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The world is too violent right now.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
