Gail Zappa Quotes
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
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My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
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I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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I like romanticizing romance.
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I always say I broke my mom's heart when I left. I don't know if that's what any mom wants for her kid, just thinking about how hard it is trying to make it in this business.
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A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
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It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
