Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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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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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
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Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.
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Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
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You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
