If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.


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I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
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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...
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