Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
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Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
