Ze Frank Quotes
This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).
Quotes to Explore
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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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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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
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I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.
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A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.
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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
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It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
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This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).
