Warren Zevon Quotes
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I was born free.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.
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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
