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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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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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.
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I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
