Frank Zappa Quotes
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
