I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.


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BILL HADER
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done,
NAOMI JUDD
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
NAOMI JUDD
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN
Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humans than vice versa.
TOM FRIEND
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
AARON ECKHART
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever ...
CATERINA MURINO
I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.
DAVID TOMS
But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
NEIL INNES
I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.
BETTY DODSON
I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I t...
JOHN LYDON
Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
EUGENE ORMANDY
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
HELMUT JAHN
I'm sure we'll beat it. More important than anything else, I think the fans are enjoying it more, I ...
MICHAEL COHL
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JACKIE EVANCHO
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more me...
RIVER PHOENIX
Music influences fashion and vice versa. You have to strike the right balance of both sex and sophis...
TINA CHAI
Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anyth...
JULIAN GLOVER
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLIS
I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO
Mirrors show u more than anything else ever could...
GEORGE OTERO
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. SCOTT PECK
I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a...
DONALD JUDD
I love my country more than anything else.
EHUD OLMERT
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
PATSY CLINE
A happy employee relates that happiness to customers, and vice-versa for unhappy ones.
ANNE HODKIN
Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA
'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.
ALEX GRAVES
Obviously, you dream about this day. You don't know how you are going to feel. I feel excitement mor...
DAVE ANDREYCHUK
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
SCOTT M PECK
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RIVER PHOENIX
Y'all have done more for VIP than the city ever has.
WILLIAM BOWMAN
I do think about having babies a lot, actually. I think I look forward to that more than anything el...
ADAM RODRIGUEZ
I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN
What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
CHARLES E. WILSON
What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
CHARLES WILSON
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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ALISON GOLDFRAPP
Response leads to reaction, and vice-versa.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO
I can make any throw he can make, and vice versa.
DREW WEATHERFORD
I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, wh...
JEFF ZUCKER
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the ...
BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS)
I think they've made more progress on product coverage than anything else.
CASS JOHNSON
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK
This has given me much more access to the mass media than I ever would have had. And for this reason...
WILLIAM BLUM
Commit yourself to the kingdom and vice versa
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Be...
HAYLEY ATWELL
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN
What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where ...
GEORGE ADAMS
What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where ...
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
She instantly created within me a passion for music, and has taught me so much more than I ever thou...
AMBER CUNNINGHAM
Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.
DOROTHY PARKER
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ
There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separ...
EULA BISS
They are paying for her appearance and we're the apparatus. They're good for us and vice versa.
AL NIGRIN
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA
I can be ok without being satisfied but not vice versa.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
Is it human nature that we're going to be complacent? I don't see that in any way, ... As a staff, w...
PETE CARROLL
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Never trust anyone who as a first name for a last name, and vice versa
JASON MENEZES
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
CASEY (CHARLES DILLON) STENGEL
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
CASEY STENGEL
Learning is the first quality of acceptance and vice versa
RAGHAVA.K
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-maki...
ANN POWERS
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
HOB BROUN
Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
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ALLEN JACOBSON
Every professional athlete has certain places where they know it's going to be tougher for them. It'...
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FRANCESCO TOTTI
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it h...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN
Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
CAITY LOTZ
More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up...
BILL NIGHY
It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa.
MATT WILLIG
I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be...
KATHERINE JENKINS
I definitely appreciate opportunities in life more than anything else after going through that. God ...
CHRIS MARTIN
I still get more mail for that one episode of 'Batman' than just about anything else.
ELI WALLACH
I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching f...
LAILA ROBINS
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listenin...
IMOGEN HEAP
What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa.
JENI ASHBROOK
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
STANISLAW J. LEC
Oracle can't afford to [anger] IBM too much, and vice versa.
DAVID BRADSHAW
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CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE
I guess I get asked more about that game than anything else,
ARCHIE THOMPSON
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON
I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love p...
PETE WENTZ
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
RACHEL LAMBERT MELLON
She's very controversial. But she really has done a lot for the pop and dance scene. (Her music) alw...
CAMPBELL PRYOR
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think wh...
EMMA WATSON
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it
OSCAR WILDE
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
OSCAR WILDE

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So many books, so little time.
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
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Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
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Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
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Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...
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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to...
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Without deviation progress is not possible.
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If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out ther...
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable.
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Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
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If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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too expensive and too violent.
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People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, ...
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I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...
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Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
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I'm vile and perverted.
I'm obsessed and deranged.
I've existed for years but very little...
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There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...
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Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
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Information is not knowledge.
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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
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May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
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I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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I collect things that just look retarded.
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I don't care about a social life.
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I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
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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!
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The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA
I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea...
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boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
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The best revenge is massive success.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
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I'm fascinated by simple joy.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
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Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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