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MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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DEYTH BANGER There are two cardinal sins in politics: one is hypocrisy and the other is flip-flopping.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's
desire. The other is to get it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her ow...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.
ANDREA YATES There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
OSCAR WILDE There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
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GEORGE SAUNDERS In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibil...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
ROBERT BURDETTE There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
ROBERT BURDETTE There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
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GREG KURSTIN If you do not even know one as yourself, then you do not even know them as other.
AARON SANTOS I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of bo...
JANDY NELSON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY There can’t always be two Kings.
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SCOTT IAN There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on th...
DAVID SIMON Everyone on the other team is good. In high school maybe one or two players are good.
BRIIANA RENDE There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite fran...
GEOFFREY FISHER If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increas...
, THE OTHER AMERICA, 1962 There are always two sides of a coin, our Life too has two sides... on one side there is life where ...
VIRAJ J. MAHAJAN There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is alw...
AYN RAND There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is alwa...
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THEODOR REIK People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
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CRAIG CLEVENGER For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h...
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TRENT REZNOR The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
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ARTIE LANGE Frank [Sebastiano] is a real writer, ... He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Ch...
ARTIE LANGE There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This i...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE No matter your creed, or the people you descend from, no matter how many other people there are, you...
MATT GANNON There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to de...
G.K. CHESTERTON In this world, there is one Husband Lord, all other beings are His brides.
GURU GOBIND SINGH There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you ar...
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you ar...
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is...
FULTON J. SHEEN There are two ways to be contented: one is liking what you do, and the other is doing what you like.
UNKNOWN There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON There is no benefit one way or the other. So why are they doing it?
DENISE SUTTON There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. ...
JOSS WHEDON There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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CHINESE PROVERB There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn
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FRANK ZAPPA Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
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FRANK ZAPPA All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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FRANK ZAPPA Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable.
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FRANK ZAPPA If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state
FRANK ZAPPA Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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FRANK ZAPPA I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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FRANK ZAPPA Those Jesus freaks, well they're friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut
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FRANK ZAPPA Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted.
I'm obsessed and deranged.
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Frank Zappa: 'You have...
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Wisdom is not truth.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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