Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
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To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.
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One of my strengths is my explosive power. Especially at the start line, where you have to accelerate faster than your competitor. I train for that by lifting barbells. It helps your hips thrust and your muscles twitch faster, and it builds strength. But I don't do too much gym work because I don't want to bulk up.
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
