In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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About Frank Zappa

Portrait of Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he additionally produced nearly all the 60-plus albums he released with...

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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

—Jack Kerouac

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

—Rigoberta Menchú

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

—George Eliot

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

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