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BILL HADER
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS
I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN
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 never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA
Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
ALANIS MORISSETTE
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA
We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an a...
WANDA JACKSON
I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA
If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
JIM CARREY
(My act) came together in five minutes.
JUAN GARCIA
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then ...
RICHARD PRICE
If I live a hundred years I'll never quite get those few minutes out of my mind.
ROBERT LEWIS
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK
After five minutes of that Memphis game, ... I shut the VCR off, walked out into the kitchen, got a ...
BO RYAN
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ
We have to take him out of every game five minutes in because his legs cramp up.
GARY TURCOTT
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
JAMES ALTUCHER
He looked like Larry Bird out there for the first five minutes.
BRAD BROWNELL
It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.
EVELYN LAUDER
You just wish you could go back and replay those five minutes. We were just flat.
LANCE MONYCH
I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
HANNAH COWLEY
It was amazing. We said at the beginning of the second half that the first five minutes were the mos...
ASHLEY CORRAL
When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket. (o...
DON RICKLES
Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we ...
RICK RIORDAN
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because ...
DANIEL TAMMET
I told him I'd like to know by midday. Five minutes later, he called back and agreed.
KEVIN MARTIN
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I&#...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY
My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
We got a little lax. For about four or five minutes there in the second quarter we were mentally out...
DAVE KERSCHBAUMER
He told us to check our egos at the door and just play ball, ... Coach subbed us in every five minut...
JASON BOONE
In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA
Somebody took five minutes out of their evening, read their alert and sent an e-mail. That's signifi...
JEN COLBY
I want to go for walks, but the doctors say, 'No, you can't go for walks.' I ask my family, let's ju...
KAY HANSEN
He'll say some pretty funny stuff at the expense of a lot of people in the audience, but then he'll ...
GREG THOMPSON
We begin bombing (the Russians) in five minutes.
RONALD REAGAN
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone...
JIMMY CARL BLACK
It definitely helps out. You can go in and play hard for five minutes and not worry about getting ti...
LUKE ROGERS
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
(The injury) is still in the back of my mind, but I'm feeling really comfortable out there, ... get ...
CASEY HAMPTON
My mom taught me how to sew and I liked it for five minutes.
LORI KERR
We were driven off like rats in five minutes.
ROGER SHERMAN
Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma.
KELLY ARMSTRONG
Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
RICK RIORDAN
We just ran out of time. We needed five minutes more. They never got down on themselves - they never...
FRANK DECKER
A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
We got it together and came out strong in the second half. I think in both halves, the first five mi...
ERIKA MESSAM
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-m...
BERNADETTE PETERS
I'm eating. Gimme five minutes.
BODE MILLER
In the back of my mind I always wanted to get back to Division II.
RAY MONICA
After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have...
EVANGELINE LILLY
Everyone feels Frank will come back and be the Frank Thomas we've seen for many years,
ARN TELLEM
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
THOMAS WOLFE
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years
THOMAS WOLFE
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
TOM WOLFE
I went out there for five minutes and busted him. I talked (trash) for a day. I'm still trying to he...
CORIE BLOUNT
Five minutes was my claim to fame. I didn't know if I would get another shot.
HERCULEZ GOMEZ
I wish there were another five minutes in the heat. I'm always upset when I get second. I am disappo...
LAYNE BEACHLEY
Something as artificial and human as an hour wouldn't last five minutes here. It would be dried out ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Well, I hate small talk, and I refuse to become one of those old people who spends all their time te...
HELEN COX
With five minutes left in the game and it's a seven point game, we had our chances to get back into ...
MICHAEL GRANT
I've always felt the first five minutes of the second half were critical. That sets a tone. We came ...
LUTE OLSON
I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes.
MARVIN ANDERSON
My mind will be the downfall, I've suffered years of perfectionism, twenty five long years my prison
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA
He gave up about five minutes later.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
We were up 21 points with five minutes to go -- and then it got a little close.
WATSON BROWN
He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
N ROME
I'm blessed with everything.A world to which a man can cling.So happy at times that I break out in t...
BRIAN WILSON
Within five minutes, he was in excruciating pain, drawing his knees up.
DOROTHY JONES
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever...
RONALD REAGAN
As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back...
K.J. CHOI
If you get stopped by a bus, that's 10 minutes right there. Add in a wheelchair and that's another f...
CAROL MURRAY
After all my crying and yelling, they let me see him behind the glass window for five minutes.
ASHLEY PAINTER
We had to come out and set a temp in the first five minutes. Against teams like this you have to kee...
JUSTIN PIGG
You just lie on your back, or whatever is comfortable for you, and close your eyes and try to just l...
MADELINE HOPKINS
Alot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles in eleven minutes. I once wrote an Engli...
MEGAN MIRANDA
She was supposed to be back in ten minutes and when she wasn't back in 45 minutes, we began to worry...
RON PETERSON
A man must get his affairs in order, even if he lives five minutes ahead of them.
ROBERT BLACK
We're happy we won 7-1, but momentum can change in five minutes.
DAVE BARR
When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Ve...
MANIKA
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Rus...
RONALD REAGAN
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, ...
NANCY KERRIGAN
Words can't even explain. I'm so proud of these guys. Obviously, kudos to Battle Mountain for coming...
CHAD SLONIKER
I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my...
SADIE FROST
He giggled for five minutes, ... I hung up.
BOB CLARKE
We kind of have a thing about not playing longer than 30 minutes if we can. When I go to a show, my ...
SHAWN MILLER
Five words that were the hardest words I would ever have to say,
Five pillars of my faith that ...
RUTH AHMED
I always will have the thought in the back of my mind. But I just got to be strong about it. Just go...
TONY JUDICE
I'm going out of my mind, ( mind speaks ) Good idea, its getting pretty crowded in here...
TERRY PRATCHETT
A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.
STEVE KLUGER
When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving....
STEPHEN WRIGHT
There's no question in my mind there will be a suburban development within five years on the other s...
BERT WEERTS

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too expensive and too violent.
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Information is not knowledge.
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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 feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
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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!
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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...
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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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