Ahmet Zappa Quotes
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.
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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
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Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I collect things that just look retarded.
