Frank Zappa Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.
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A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
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I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.
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When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.
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So many books, so little time.
