Frank Zappa Quotes

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Frank Zappa

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• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Political
  • Words
  • Support

• I have a lot of vanity.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Vanity
  • Lot

• Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Long
  • Forever
  • DNA

• Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • May
  • Comedy
  • Follow

• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Professional
  • Gentleman

• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Women
  • Single
  • Images

• When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • Done
  • Friends

• I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Love
  • Listen

• No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Band
  • Broken

• Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Music
  • Future
  • Success

• In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Book
  • Author

• This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after 'Defender of the Faith,' again after 'Goodbye Columbus,' and understandably it went way up - to about 107 - after 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Faith

• There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Different

• As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

  

  Roman Reigns
  • Hate
  • Laugh
  • Critic

• American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • American
  • Individualism
  • Celebrated

• Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • People

• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

  

  Frank Zappa