Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
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Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.
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Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
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Neither. I think of myself as a human being.
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A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,Thoughts without sound; Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder And held me bound.
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Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.
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I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
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You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
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There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.
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This is the last time in America for 'Hot Fuss,' but we will be back.
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - 1961
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
