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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
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The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.
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Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.
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Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
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It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner
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There is no hell, there's only France
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I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
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So many books, so little time.
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I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.
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The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
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Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.
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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
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Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?
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I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
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Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.
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