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.
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.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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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.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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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.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
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You are my fire the one desire<brb>Believe when I say I want it that way
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The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
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Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.
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The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
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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.
