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.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
Rachel Kushner -
One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
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 -
I have a lot of vanity.
Jack Nicholson
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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.
S. Jay Olshansky -
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 -
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 -
There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
Zendaya -
I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
Nancy Jo Sales -
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
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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.
T Bone Burnett -
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
Yoko Ono -
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 -
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 -
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge -
We are in need of new concepts... which reorient our way of looking at the world to encompass present and future changes. I believe in the predominant framework for modern corporation... the corporation is viewed as a resource-conversion entity, taking raw material and converting tme into products, with dollars measuring the transaction. Returns are provided to owners in the form of dividends or capital appreciation in the marketplace.
R. Edward Freeman
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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
John Schlesinger -
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
Manning Marable -
It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.
Adrian Wilson -
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa