Frank Zappa Quotes
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'
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I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
