Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, musician, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30
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“Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not”
Frank Zappa
“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
“Those Jesus freaks, well they're friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut”
“Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it”
“It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner”
“Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.”
“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.”
“I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as 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. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress.”