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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The-the-the criticism people have of your position, Reverend, is- you want God out of everything!
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.
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Touring and performing is the best part of my job. I love it. I guess I like pop and rock. Really getting into a powerful stage performane, running around like crazy on the stage.
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The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.