Frank Ocean Quotes

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rich

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Intelligence

• My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • Person
  • Speak
  • Actions

• If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Fall
  • Wall

• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

  

  Randy Newman
  • True
  • Earth
  • Genius

• I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Clothes

• If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Tax
  • Vanity

• You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Things
  • Place
  • Able

• I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Fun
  • Emotional
  • Golf

• In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.

  

  Maluma
  • Passion
  • Lot
  • Colombia

• I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Achievement

• The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job

• I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

  

  Jimmy Johnson
  • Team
  • Football
  • Sports

• Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Today
  • You
  • WIld

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

  

  Aristotle
  • Feelings
  • Actions
  • Moral Virtue

• I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Inspired