Ahmet Zappa Quotes
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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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 forward, not back.
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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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The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
