Gail Zappa Quotes
I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
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There's no smoke and mirrors here.
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Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
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I like working on big budget films.
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We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
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Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.