Frank Ocean Quotes

I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Poor
  • Crime

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Work
  • Think
  • Yourself

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Numbers

• It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Job
  • Red
  • Favourite

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • World
  • Slavery

• All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Work
  • Black
  • Comedy

• I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

  

  Max Schneider
  • Music
  • Writing

• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Children
  • Why

• I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • World
  • Believe