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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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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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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The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.
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It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.
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I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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After about 20 years of the real estate industry - where we had built it up from a little one-off, just five-agent operation - we built that that into a four-office, 65-agent, multimillion-dollar firm. At that point, I relocated to my ranch in eastern Montana and really thought that I was going to spend much of my time in ranching.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
