Frank Zappa Quotes
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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I don't judge my characters.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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It is too late; now I wish I could live.
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There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.
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One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.
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You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.
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I don't comment on other people's opinion.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
