Frank Zappa Quotes
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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My advice to owners of fashion brands is that you have to give digital a seat at the board table. A lot of brands treat digital strategy as something on the side.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
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Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
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All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
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If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
