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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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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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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I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
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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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Working with the editor on the set means that it is possible to keep track, at every moment, of the exact temperature of the trajectory of the scene - and know precisely what is required to continue, or precede, the action already shot. Like building a giant jigsaw puzzle. This is a freeing procedure because one is divested of all the options that might otherwise hamper one's choices. Clarity is possible. And that means one can relax into each shot, knowing the clear boundaries of where it might end or begin. And with relaxation, comes play.
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.
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I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
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Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
