Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.
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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
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If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
