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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Emiliano Zapata
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
—Frank Zappa
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
—Frank Zappa
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
—Frank Zappa
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read.
—Frank Zappa
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you
only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
—Frank Zappa
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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.
—Frank Zappa
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly
enforced.
—Frank Zappa
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
—Frank Zappa
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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
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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
—Roger Zelazny
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Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the
job of umpire.
—Dan Zevin
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A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
—Ziggy
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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it
holds the universe together.
—Carl Zwanzig
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The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader
catch his own breath.
—Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart