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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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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There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
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The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.
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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.
