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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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
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I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up because it's your own commentary and you get to see the reaction from the audience that's right there in front of you. I also love coming up with characters and watching people embrace them and enjoy them.
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They have similar genes in the worm and the only reason we really know about what those genes do in people is because they've been studied in worms.
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Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
