Frank Zappa Quotes
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Quotes to Explore
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
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If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.
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Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
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The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
