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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Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.
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Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.
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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.
