Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

• My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

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  Dad, Long, Black

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• It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

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  Simple, Enough, Should

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• I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

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  Too Much, Grew Up, Grew

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• I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

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  Money, Crazy, House

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• Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

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  Matter, Flaws, Findings

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• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

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  Growing Up, Two, Water

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• I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

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  Mother, Morning, Night

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• If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

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  Fame, Being Famous, Ifs

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• How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

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  Father, Women, Shoes

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• I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

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  Men, Garden, Tree

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• I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

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  Dark, Thinking, Views

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• I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

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  Age, World, Remember

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• I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

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  Thinking, Knows, Implants

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• I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

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  Names, Legacy, Want

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• Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

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  Jobs, Has Beens, Accidents

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• My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

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  Mother, Teacher, School

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• I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

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  Life, Acne, Miserable

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• The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

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  Fun, Ideas, Licking

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• Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

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  Book, Experience, Add

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• I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

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  New Relationship, Old Life, Trapped

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• I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

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  Song, Writing, Perfect

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• I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

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  Thinking, New Yorkers, Pathetic

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