Frank Zappa Quotes
There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
Quotes to Explore
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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When I was 5, I was always joking around like, 'Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.'
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Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
