Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Weird Al Yankovic

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• An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Country
  • She

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Hands
  • Green
  • Generation

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Experience

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

  

  Ed Helms
  • Up
  • Look
  • New

• There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • College
  • Best
  • State

• A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?

  Mandy Bujold
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• 'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Father
  • Gold
  • Right

• I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a one-guard all over, and then I started growing it out. When I had Tommy John, that was the last time it was buzzed. I've grown it ever since then.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Growing
  • College

• I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Wait

• When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Being
  • Barbie

• The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent's is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ground zero of AIDS in New York: a conservative institution that quickly adapted to its unconventional patients and made heroic efforts to try and save them.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• While Otto ran here and there, carefully choosing places to urinate, I felt over every inch of my body the scratches of sexual abandonment, the danger of drowning in scorn for myself and nostalgia for him. I got up and went back along the path; I whistled again, and waited for Otto to return.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nostalgia
  • Choosing
  • Scorn

• If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

  

  Arthur Capper
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • School

• Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Music
  • Stop
  • Need

• So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic