Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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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 was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
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I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.
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The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
