Frank Zappa Quotes

Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government.

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • People
  • Live
  • Courage

• However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Me

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Girl

• My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

  

  Anthony LaPaglia
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • People
  • Wish
  • Kind

• I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

  

  Morag Joss
  • People
  • Events
  • Survive

• I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

  

  Jon Postel
  • Work
  • Picture

• Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government.

  

  Frank Zappa
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  • Art
  • Bad