Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.
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It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project; you don't get the criticisms you would get with other projects.
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Anything that's slightly dangerous and gets the heart rate going is my kind of workout.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
