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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The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
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Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I've experienced that in triplicate.
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Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you'll always end up better than where you started.
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As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.
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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.