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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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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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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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 actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
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I've always loved high style in low company.
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I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
