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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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
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I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.
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Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here.
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Everyone should be talking to each other to find out why they have the views that they do instead of just getting on Facebook and yelling at each other. Nobody really, really talks. They don't listen.
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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
