Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
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I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
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There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
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Holy Joe: And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts
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Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur,vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.
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Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
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But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.
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It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.
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Cursed be he above all othersWho's enslaved by love of money.Money takes the place of brothers,Money takes the place of parents.Money brings us war and slaughter.
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I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.
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If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
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I don't make clothes for the critics.
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When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.
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I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
