Frank Ocean Quotes

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
  • Born
  • Genius

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Look

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Up
  • Design
  • Philosophy

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Woman
  • Walking
  • Dress

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Rain
  • Kiss

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Human Body

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Win
  • Gold
  • Fans

• Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Heaven
  • March

• The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Time
  • Success
  • English

• Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Success
  • Curiosity
  • Comes

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Knowledge
  • Focus
  • Guitar

• I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Trying
  • Fighting
  • Gym

• When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Success