Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.
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I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
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I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. This picture will be called 'The Blue Revolution'. It isn’t the fact of my taking power in France that interests me, but rather the possibility of creating a monochrome picture in my new manner: ‘The Refinement of Sensibility’.
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I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.
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I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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I thought last game certainly was his best performance, especially in terms of pass rush. I think he's still learning the league, obviously. Heck, I'll be saying that until midseason probably, maybe even the end of the season. But I think his conditioning is getting a little better; he's getting in a little more football shape.
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I don't find that I subscribe or believe in many rules about what comedy is and what makes it funny.
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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
