Frank Zappa Quotes
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.
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With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.
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What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
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Music is always a commentary on society.
