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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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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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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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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New York is who I am.
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I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.
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I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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.
