Gail Zappa Quotes

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

Gail Zappa

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• Ingenuity

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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.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Ut ameris, amabilis esto.

  

  Ovid

• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Christmas

• 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.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • True
  • Literature

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Faith
  • Lost

• I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Equality

• I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Life
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Law

• There's no smoke and mirrors here.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Here
  • Mirrors
  • Smoke

• 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.'

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Angry

• I like working on big budget films.

  

  Freida Pinto

• 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.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • World
  • Country
  • Small

• My years on 'Family Matters' were precious to me. During the run of the show, I saw many births, deaths, weddings... The actual family on the show became my family.

  

  Reginald VelJohnson
  • Family
  • Years
  • Matters

• All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • World
  • Education
  • Food

• We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Power
  • Peace

• Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

  

  William Godwin
  • Book
  • Curiosity
  • Lovers

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

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

  

  Gail Zappa
  • Curiosity
  • Willingness
  • Ingenuity