Frank Ocean Quotes
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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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.
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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.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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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.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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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.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
