Ahmet Zappa Quotes
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
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Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
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I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.
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The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
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The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
