Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.
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I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
