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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
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK
My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'
EDWARD KITSIS
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN
Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA
The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD
I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO
We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
PETER TORK
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
PETER TORK
If I Were A Bell: The songs of Frank Loesser.
ANDREA MARCOVICCI
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ
The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
DAVY JONES
Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signat...
BRIAN ENO
But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
NEIL INNES
(The Skrull Beatles discuss their future.)

"So when this is all over, are we still gonna ...
PAUL CORNELL
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
We were all nervous the first day. But by the second day we were ready to explore.
ANDREW STUCKEY
Were kisses all the joys in bed,One woman would another wed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART
I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA
We were here all year. We were ready, willing and able to meet and now it's too late.
DONNA HAYES
In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Are we adequately prepared? ... No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happen...
GREG POLAND
I would have probably rested him by now if we were out of it.
CHARLIE MANUEL
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies ...
PETER TORK
We were never able to reach an agreement with Frank (Baumgartner).
BOB RISCH
We were ready to play tonight and we just took care of what we needed to take care of. Now we're rea...
DANI WOJCIAK
It's all coming together quickly. We still think everything will be ready Saturday. We were hoping t...
BRADLEE DODDS
When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my...
GARY NUMAN
We were there, ready to play, and the referees were there. If we were supposed to be all together st...
DAVE URICK
We were awake. But we were just ready to play the game, so I don't know if we were listening to what...
DONNY BUNCE
Its the story of our season. We dig ourselves a hole. If we could just eliminate the first 20 minute...
DEREK CANGELLO
By the time we were ready to cross the Atlantic, it was just another 18-hour flight,
MARK REBHOLZ
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE
We were pumped. We were ready.
HANNAH PASSAFUIME
We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.
LES CLAYPOOL
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
DAVY JONES
If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
As though she bid me stay by her a week.
If sh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Two years ago, Frank Doyle came into the Harvard game in the third period in Albany [to replace Jimm...
MATT LUNDIN
We've had tremendous focus during our workouts. Bennie has done a good job of getting us there. The ...
DWAYNE SLAY
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I think only Anthony Zappa knows the answers to that.
LARRY HOLMQUIST
If there were sprinklers in this building, we wouldn't be here right now.
CHARLES HALL
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to b...
JEFF BAMBULE
We were hoping we'd see them. We'll be ready for them.
FRANS STEYN
We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.
CRISS JAMI
We were all psyched about these games and ready to win them. Now we just know we need to step up nex...
MIKE KEATING
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themse...
DAVY JONES
If we were to give it back right now that would be too risky.
GREG BIRD
We were excited to win. I give credit to my girls. They worked hard. Now we try to get ready for dis...
LISA ABRON
I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this g...
JULIAN SENSLEY
The spark of a near-miss and the spark of a near-hit were once wed, and lived happily ever after.
LESLIE MIKLOSY
We were ready from the start. But it's going to be tough down the stretch.
KRISTIAN HUSELIUS
Now the house is ready to be rebuilt.
GAYLE KORCZYK
To be frank, we want to avoid price controls,
JEFF TREWHITT
The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART
اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART
You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART
There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART
There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART
Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART
We hope the complex will be ready for occupancy by the fall of 2007.
RAY CARTER
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
ROBERT STACK
We weren't ready to play and Roaring Fork was embarrassed by Gunnison the night before. We need to b...
PAUL ALTHAUS
To get thrown out during a timeout, I didn't think that was possible. We were getting ready to go on...
DANNY FORTSON
Before, if we were doing 'punt,' there were some guys on the sidelines not doing anything. Now, ever...
DARIAN HAGAN
We were asked if we would be interested in contributing any funds to the park. We're supposed to get...
BRUCE FISHER
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...
GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT
If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to make...
DARRELL ARTHUR
If you have both money and bread, you can select with whom your daughter to wed.
VIKRANT PARSAI
We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.
SHARON WEIL
I historically save my timeouts for the end of the game. By then, it was too late. I should have use...
DAVID MAGLEY
It was the strangest feeling. It was like we were waiting for this, so when it came, we were so read...
LAURA FALKENBERG
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA
If we wait for the right thing to turn up, the right thing will turn up but we we will not be ready....
ANIL GUPTA
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
We were contacted by 'Wheel of Fortune' to see if we wanted to be part of the program.
WILLIAM ATWOOD
If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now.
KIERA CASS
We need to prepare the airport for whatever the future might bring. If the future brings an industry...
ROBERT BROWN
I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves ...
VANESSA MARCIL
I'm ready. I'm excited to take over. The past two years were a good learning experience and now I'm ...
ANTHONY MORELLI
Right now they have nine stages and every single one of them is full. Everybody knows Frank. Frank i...
BILL ARNOLD
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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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'm vile and perverted.
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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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Gag me with a spoon!
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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...
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
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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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