Frank Zappa Quotes
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
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Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
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I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
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I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.
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Sometimes, you do need different leaders for different stages of the company.
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It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive. Don't become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.
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I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
