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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like...
BILL HADER People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it sq...
TOM SHADYAC Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
BOB DYLAN Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.
TROY GARITY Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been a...
ADAM CAROLLA Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institutio...
SANDRA TSING LOH I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
OMAR TORRIJOS HERRERA One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? ...
AVRIL LAVIGNE Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at ...
BARBARA HAMBLY This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box ...
EVAN SPIEGEL The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete. A lot of people probably...
PRINCE FIELDER All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can ...
DAVID ROBINSON Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We'...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want...
MONICA BELLUCCI My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of ...
LOUIE GOHMERT When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world t...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV...
AIMEE MULLINS Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how t...
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don...
KEVIN MITNICK I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We ...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
JOEL FUHRMAN As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people thin...
NICK CARTER I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
G-EAZY Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have ...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Mos...
CHRIS HARDWICK Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
JOHN LYDON People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America a...
ANNA FRIEL I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
BUTCH TRUCKS If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton'...
WILBUR ROSS It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own ...
LARRY ELLISON Why there is word for "End"???, which mean why there is "End",...!?
(So far it doesn't ex...
DEYTH BANGER People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't ha...
FRANK BLACK Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the ...
CASEY KASEM I struggle with technology. I think it doesn't like me because I think it knows I don't like...
ALFRED ENOCH Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. ...
CARL LEWIS I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stu...
DANIEL BRYAN Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
THOMAS A. EDISON When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, b...
ELLEN DEGENERES If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.
FRANK STALLONE The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy,...
G. HANNELIUS I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhe...
EDIE CAMPBELL Just because two guys are homosexual and happen to be the only two homosexuals on-screen doesn't...
CHANDLER MASSEY Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
IGGY POP I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn...
BRUCE NAUMAN I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil...
A. R. RAHMAN A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter ...
SUSAN HILL Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
ROGER EBERT We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out l...
LAURA DERN Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie...
JACKIE CHAN I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's ...
SUFJAN STEVENS If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is ...
JOHN MADDEN If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn&...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to a...
DUSTIN CLARE I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movie...
VIRAT KOHLI You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.
DAVE RAMSEY One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn...
TOM STOPPARD I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of w...
MARK HADDON As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life do...
EVE MYLES Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
LARA STONE A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn...
ROSEMARY CLOONEY When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and...
JARVIS COCKER My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses...
TONY HAWK Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because yo...
DAVID GUETTA People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff does...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea...
PATRICK MURPHY I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to b...
SARA GRUEN Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't delive...
HARRY BROWNE Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really wor...
PARIS JACKSON We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it ...
ADAM HASNER Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I...
ZENDAYA It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it...
VICKY MCCLURE I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the ...
RICK PERRY I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclai...
RENE RICARD I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know eac...
CAREY MULLIGAN People still don't know how good Kevin Love is because he played in Minnesota... you didn't ...
DAN GILBERT A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the...
WEILI DAI Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op...
NANCY SINATRA Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And ju...
TOBY KEITH We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, ...
RONY ABOVITZ But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of &...
DAVID HEYMAN Just because it is not done your way, doesn't mean it is not right.
CHARMAINE J FORDE Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn&...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY
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MOON UNIT ZAPPA I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA Gag me with a spoon!
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked ...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
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ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
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ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
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ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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