Frank Zappa Quotes
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
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Nutrition is just as important as working out.
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Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
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We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.
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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
