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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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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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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People ask me so many questions.
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they would have 100 percent trust or faith in you as an artist. Unfortunately, that's not really the case - it's what sells.
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I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
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To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.
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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.
