Frank Zappa Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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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.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
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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.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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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.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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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.'
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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.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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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.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
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It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.