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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Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
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I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
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In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.
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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.
