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• You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Obnoxious, Prove It

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa". "Oui" Interview with Dave Rothman, April 1979.

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Real, Differences

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• You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

  Frank Zappa

  Names, Ugly, Ends

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• Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Rights

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• Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

  Frank Zappa

  Military, School, People

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• Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Evil, Greed

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

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Nice, People, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

  Frank Zappa

  Race, White, Racism

  Song: Trouble Every Day

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• It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Witty, Stupid

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• Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

  Frank Zappa

  Care, Politics, Causes

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

  Frank Zappa

  Business, People, Political

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Smart, Believe

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• I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Destiny, Government

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• Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

  Frank Zappa

  Air, Law, Water

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

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• Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

  Frank Zappa

  Progress, Deviance, Normality

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• Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Enemy, Anarchy

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• I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Irritated, Enjoy

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• One and one is eleven.

  Frank Zappa

  Dense, Eleven

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

  Frank Zappa

  Want, Explaining

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• As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Mean, Ideas

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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