Frank Ocean Quotes
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
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I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.
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Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing.
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I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.
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The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
