Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like... BILL HADER In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you made a mistake on the field, he just chewed you out when he got back to the dugout. It made y... ELROD HENDRICKS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ Choose your words before talking SOTONYE ANGA To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks KAMAND KOJOURI It's not like wearing your jersey on Friday and letting everyone know you're a player, ... and going... TODD WILLIAMS Mind your strength! Let people know that you are strong and let them see how strong you are, and who... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is t... ABHIJIT NASKAR Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA Free yourself from the people who cause you drama and poison your soul. You know who they are... The... STEVE MARABOLI Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or i... ANNABELLA SCIORRA If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. CASSANDRA CLARE People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neigh... ELLEN DEGENERES No matter what, ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Any doubts must be put out of your mind. If you find you... CHRISTINE ANDERSON Life's irony;You go to school only when you lack direction in life,but if you have direction,you rat... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu... GREG KURSTIN You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i... WENDY MASS How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life... SOPHIE KINSELLA When you feel at peace with your troubles, they turn into lessons and ladders to help you climb to t... JACINTA MPALYENKANA Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the... JENNIFER WEINER You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop ... SARAH DESSEN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach t... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES That's kind of like asking somebody to the prom in front of a pep rally, JANE KACZMAREK I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pe... RAVEN-SYMONE Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Learn, believe and achieve! SUNNY BASRA You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with th... DONNY OSMOND If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good ... BILL GATES ... inequality matters ... is what it takes to live a decent life. If you get sick without health co... BILL MOYERS I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a ... GROUCHO MARX ... inequality matters ... If you get sick without health coverage, inequality matters. If you're th... BILL MOYERS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they g... STEVE SPURRIER Your value does not decrease if there is someone’s inability to see your worth. Remind yourself of... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes... MEG CABOT To get more out of yourself, you have to expect more out of yourself. Before your body can achieve i... RICKY WILLIAMS I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I ... SAMANTHA ISLER Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio.... LIONEL SHRIVER We're a team that doesn't quit. We've got a bunch of guys who, no matter what our record is, we're g... ANDRE JOHNSON Instead of worrying, forget about your troubles. If some worries come true, you will have the Courag... RVM Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the r... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Develop the habit of assessing yourself, it will keep you from being a mediocre and challenge you to... SUNDAY ADELAJA The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own. WES "SCOOP" NISKER If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own WES NISKER If you look at our ERG towns' Strategic School Profiles, you see we are spending less on out-of-dist... CHET BIALICKI How would your life be different if...You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surr... STEVE MARABOLI My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I wo... LUPITA NYONG'O I haven't got time to read books.' 'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d... PAULO COELHO If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what iss... DONNA BRAZILE The way things are going, if you tell a kid how you want him to play and he doesn't like it, now he'... MARC MITCHELL Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau... STEVE TOLTZ When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like... CAROL CHANNING You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmaini... CHARMAINE SMITH LADD There are different paths to your destination. Choose your own path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Peace within us starts when we learn to forgive and let go MIMI NOVIC I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I f... LANCE BASS Life is a closed loop control system. You take inputs from your environment, from what you read, fro... NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—thr... VICTORIA MORAN A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Oth... ALAN FURST Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dicta... DORIS LESSING This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN If you have time off from school and you choose to go on vacation and go home and hang out for a bit... JACOB REITAN Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for commun... FRANK LENTRICCHIA Top surface layer rots first to erode the entire value of system. Change it to correct before the de... ANUJ SOMANY It's something you can't get out of your mind. What if we'd done this? What if that happened? But at... KRISTIN KING When you tell people about the mud pit, you separate yourself from anybody else who does any kind of... GORDON JACKSON You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you r... CHRIS PRATT Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Lik... JOHN COREY WHALEY Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourse... JOHN H. PATTERSON I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't... KHALED HOSSEINI The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create so... DAN PINK
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FRANK ZAPPA The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place ... FRANK ZAPPA Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could... FRANK ZAPPA People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, ... FRANK ZAPPA Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need... FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk FRANK ZAPPA Music is always a commentary on society. FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre... FRANK ZAPPA If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep FRANK ZAPPA I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice... FRANK ZAPPA It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects ... FRANK ZAPPA Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All. FRANK ZAPPA The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively ... FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tabl... FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rel... FRANK ZAPPA I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y... FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre... FRANK ZAPPA Tobacco is my favorite vegetable. FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o... FRANK ZAPPA There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the... FRANK ZAPPA Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little... FRANK ZAPPA Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? FRANK ZAPPA There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. FRANK ZAPPA Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. FRANK ZAPPA My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f... FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the po... FRANK ZAPPA It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret. FRANK ZAPPA Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have... FRANK ZAPPA Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think,... FRANK ZAPPA Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. FRANK ZAPPA Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is ... FRANK ZAPPA Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. FRANK ZAPPA A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want. FRANK ZAPPA May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face. FRANK ZAPPA I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? FRANK ZAPPA I detest love lyrics. I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that pe... FRANK ZAPPA For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywh... FRANK ZAPPA The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it... FRANK ZAPPA The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everythin... FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of... FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th... AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't comm... AHMET ZAPPA I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. AHMET ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are ... AHMET ZAPPA I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. AHMET ZAPPA I collect things that just look retarded. AHMET ZAPPA All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe boo... AHMET ZAPPA I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off... AHMET ZAPPA About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a... DWEEZIL ZAPPA There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those ... AHMET ZAPPA I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin... AHMET ZAPPA The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w... DWEEZIL ZAPPA We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task ... DWEEZIL ZAPPA My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got ... AHMET ZAPPA I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h... AHMET ZAPPA I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. AHMET ZAPPA At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school wa... AHMET ZAPPA I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actuall... AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't ... AHMET ZAPPA My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, ... AHMET ZAPPA Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously goo... DWEEZIL ZAPPA There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musician... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life. DWEEZIL ZAPPA I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked... DWEEZIL ZAPPA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j... DWEEZIL ZAPPA And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were... DWEEZIL ZAPPA For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melo... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal. DWEEZIL ZAPPA I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik... DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita... DWEEZIL ZAPPA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing. DWEEZIL ZAPPA The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and som... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybo... DWEEZIL ZAPPA My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long s... 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... FRANK IERO I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I... FRANK SINATRA The best revenge is massive success. FRANK SINATRA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou... ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ... 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'... ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your... ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde... ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy. 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. ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-... ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat... ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv... ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you. ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to... ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie... ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla... ZE FRANK On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ... 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... ZE FRANK