Nothing I've ever written has ...

Nothing I\'ve ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.
Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.
 Frank Zappa

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
 Richard Grenier
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
 Saint Francis de Sales
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

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I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.
 Frank Zappa
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
Well Mike, I'm abnormal.
 Frank Zappa
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
 Frank Zappa
Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.
 Frank Zappa