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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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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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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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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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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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
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'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
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I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.
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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
