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If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.
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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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Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.
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