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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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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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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Parents are rule givers.
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Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
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Everyone has their challenges.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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I know that's kind of contrite to say, but I look at myself as one of the younger veterans on the team.
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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
