Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.


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My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN
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
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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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
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY
If the data miss expectations, there will be knee-jerk dollar selling, but I don't think it will las...
MASANOBU ISHIKAWA
It will be a straight choice between Frank and Steve,
ANDY IRVINE
I think only Anthony Zappa knows the answers to that.
LARRY HOLMQUIST
I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I&#...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO
Everyone feels Frank will come back and be the Frank Thomas we've seen for many years,
ARN TELLEM
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
C. S. LEWIS
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be suffi...
RAVI ZACHARIAS
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC
In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA
For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wa...
DAVID LEVITHAN
was the sort of jerk who would entice a young girl with candy and consider it a smart operation.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy u...
JACK HANDY
Frank Miller was worried it would be tempered down; it wouldn't be quite what he originally intended...
CLIVE OWEN
Frank was her one true love, she told me.
ARLENE DAHL
I think there was a knee-jerk reaction on the part of market participants who were hoping and wantin...
DENNIS FERRO
There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted...
MICHAEL BUBLE
My phone buzzes in my shirt pocket, and Frank takes a step back to let me answer it. I’ve got anot...
ABRIA MATTINA
It has been well documented that Hugh has withdrawn from the interview process and it will be a stra...
ANDY IRVINE
If anything, one would think we learn from Brexit is we need a strong, stable banking system, not on...
SHERROD BROWN
Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn...
BOB GREEN
I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.
Hazel Smiled and ruffled h...
RICK RIORDAN
I'd like to see Charlton bench 320 and lift 260 in the clean and jerk. If he can do that, I think it...
DANIEL BROWN
I will be meeting with Bruce and Frank Warren to discuss the future,
FRANK BLACK
Being a jerk doesn't make you a better business person. It just makes you a jerk.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT
Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY
I will be frank. The taste is in my mouth ... .
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I thin...
STACIE ORRICO
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER
I would say that to extrapolate a sea change in the industry from one tragic situation would be noth...
JAY TAYLOR
I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill ...
DAVID G. MCAFEE
a hand grenade will be thrown at Frank Sinatra sometime tonight during the show.
FRANK SINATRA
If I could do anything, I think a theme park. Because the world of Lisa Frank really is a world. And...
LISA FRANK
Pretend and it will be true.
ALLY CARTER
I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.
MARIAH CAREY
If a person wants to be a true Christian, then he will endeavor to know Jesus and press towards bein...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA
If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.
CARRIE FISHER
We never would have thought that when we were kids we would be here, ... We just thought that we wou...
LEROY BURRELL
It's kind of what I originally thought would be true. I think people are aware we're doing it, and I...
BRUCE SEVY
It has been well documented that Hugh Campbell, the Glasgow coach, has withdrawn from the interview ...
ANDY IRVINE
It will be important if it's true, and I hope it's true,
CHARLES JENNINGS
Jesus Christ would be quite interesting, but Bart Simpson would be brilliant.
STEVE HARMISON
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariabl...
THOMAS MALTHUS
Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.
JAKE SULLIVAN
I know Frank personally I like Frank, ... I think it's beautiful. My girlfriend (Mimi Lalonde) was i...
BILLY BROWN
if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL
There's a difference between playing it cool and being a jerk.
AULIQ ICE
There's a difference between playing it cool and being a jerk.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
LAUREN BACALL
You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL
When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI
Schwarzenegger's budget is smoke and mirrors; we need a governor who will be more serious and frank ...
BOB MULHOLLAND
I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.
KEVIN SPACEY
I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
NICOLAS CAGE
Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.
GENE LUEN YANG
I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no i...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
It is the giving wolf, who is also the killing wolf....
MASTER CHIEF 117
Feast of Michael & All Angels The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representa...
ROBERT L. SHORT
With puppets, you follow the head and the arms will follow, but Frank didn't really do that with the...
BRIAN HENSON
Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be...
GREG BOYLE
Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be h...
MARV LEVY
My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.
JOHN DICKERSON
I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.
BLINK 182
Jesus neither said,"It will be finished", nor "It may be finished", but He said,"It is finished".
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.
IRVING S. SHAPIRO
My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish commun...
JOHN PIPER
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
My father and Frank Sinatra respected each other's abilities enormously. My father always said Frank...
CHRISTOPHER RIDDLE
True peace comes from God through Christ Jesus!!!
NORM TOMLINSON
I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a s...
MICHAEL BUBLE
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
ANONYMOUS
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA
How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT
Percy and Frank stumbled backwards. ‘Um … is that thing tame?’ Frank said. The horse whinnie...
RICK RIORDAN
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
I think it will be hard to get a stimulus bill, but I think we really need to do it, ... I don't thi...
RICHARD GEPHARDT
The danger is, if we're not very frank and strong about this, there will be tit-for-tat arrangements...
CHARLIE MCCREEVY
I am aware a decision will be released tomorrow. I'm awaiting that and don't think it would be appro...
ATTORNEY MORANO
I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used age against Mor...
GEORGE ARZT
I am aware a decision will be released tomorrow. I'm awaiting that and don't think it would be appro...
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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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