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The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.
Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.
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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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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!
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I want a hairy little Jewish Princess with a brand new nose, who knows where it goes.
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
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You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?
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The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.
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Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
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Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
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I think that if you use the so-called strong words you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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