Frank Zappa Quotes
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.Frank Zappa
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
Ice Cube -
My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
Randi Weingarten -
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
Dan Brown -
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
Langston Hughes -
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr -
Keep your eye on the ball.
Ford Frick -
There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
Rabih Alameddine -
I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
Halima Aden -
I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
Hannah Kearney -
I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
Dakota Fanning
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
E. L. Doctorow -
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
Zooey Deschanel -
How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
Kapil Sibal -
Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
Mamie Gummer -
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi -
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
Barack Obama
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That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
Peter Drucker -
The Falcon was forever going wrong. Time and again Han and his rebel cohorts would have to bang on the dashboard with their fists to get some wayward system working. And this too helped give the ship a flawed, almost human quality. This is something I look for in all machines...
Jeremy Clarkson -
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.
John Dyer -
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.
Phylicia Rashad -
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa