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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I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.
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I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
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Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
