Frank Ocean Quotes
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Quotes to Explore
-
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
-
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
-
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
-
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
-
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
-
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
-
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
-
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
-
I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
-
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
-
I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
-
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
-
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
-
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.
-
The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
-
I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.
-
Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
-
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
-
I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
-
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
