Frank Zappa Quotes
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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I love Wiz Khalifa.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.
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I look at Boston-based companies all the time... There's certainly great companies in Boston. If the deal makes sense on the merit of the deal itself, we'll go and do the deal.
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Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
