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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
-
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.
-
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
-
I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
-
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.
-
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
-
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
-
Life is not easy in politics.
-
Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
-
Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
-
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
-
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.
-
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
-
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
-
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
-
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
-
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
-
What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.
-
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
-
I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.
-
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
-
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.
