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 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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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
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Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.
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If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
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Me personally, I'm always going to lead by example first. But there are moments where I need to use my voice and go up to a guy and get my message across.
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We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.
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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.
