"My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff."

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Source : "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

Ahmet Zappa

#Father Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.”
“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.”
“Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.”
“In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!”

Source : Tim F. LaHaye (1978). “The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality”
“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”

Source : Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.91, Hachette UK
“My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.”
“The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.”
“It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.”

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