Dweezil Zappa Quotes
Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
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Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.
