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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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.
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You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
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I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.
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It's nice to squash people's expectations.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
