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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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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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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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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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 started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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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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What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?
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I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
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I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
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People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.
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I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
