Ahmet Zappa Quotes
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I don't care about revenues.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
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I knew I could always work harder and be better and show I'm more prepared. I had a whole science to, like, how you have to arrive 17 minutes early to something. If you're 20 minutes early, that means you're too eager, but 17 minutes gives you time to, like, settle, sign in, use the ladies' room, have some water, and get comfortable.
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I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.
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Disinvestments will continue to happen. If the issue is priced correctly, there's no reason why it should not sell.
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
