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.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• 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.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Work
  • Star

• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Day
  • Boy
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

  

  Jet Li
  • Movie

• I'm a big runner, and I like to lift heavy. I'm not one for those little two-pound dumbbells - my goal is to be super-muscular in my 40s.

  

  Barbie Ferreira

• 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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