Frank Zappa Quotes
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
Garry Kasparov -
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.
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I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.
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I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.
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You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.
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If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.