Dweezil Zappa Quotes
And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.
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There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.
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I like Pantene shampoo and conditioner because my hair is so straight, and I find it gives me a little lift.
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If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
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And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.
