Al Yankovic Quotes

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Al Yankovic

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FunnyMusicPeopleThinkDoingYou

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

Jennifer Holliday

PeopleMeaningKnowSometimesOthers

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

John Grant

LoveGoodMusicBlackDoingPunk

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

John Caudwell

BusinessTimeMyselfPeopleFlyOut

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

Michael Eisner

GodSchoolI AmCollegeHigh School

We had - there was 'Laverne and Shirley,' but 'Happy Days' started off the evening, and then, you know, we just sort of swam along with them.

John Ritter

HappyEveningYouKnowDaysStarted

There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.

Simon McBurney

LightSoulYouFindEverythingAway

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

Tony Curtis

ServiceI AmMeFeelYouKnow

Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own rules, then they become against the creator and what He intended for government to do.

Tony Evans

GovernmentRulesCreateRunBecome

I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.

Rob McElhenney

LiveWorldFeelComedyYouDark

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'

Molly Ivins

GovernmentAttentionRulesOutMost

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

Luis Alberto Urrea

MyselfPeopleMeThinkPolitical

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera

FreedomPowerGoodnessTrueHuman

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