Ian Frazier Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.
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I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.
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When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
