Frank Ocean Quotes

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Frank Ocean

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• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Like

• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • American
  • Dream
  • Logic

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Say

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.

  

  Larry King
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.

  

  Quintilian

• I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Action
  • Painting

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
  • Growing
  • Joy

• One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Character
  • Power

• Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

  

  Charles McCabe
  • Art

• This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • May
  • Fear

• There's more to the sport than just fighting, and you either understand that, or you don't. And if you don't, then I promise you the guys that are worth money don't want to fight you, because you don't get it.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Promise

• I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, merry fucking Christmas!

  

  Denis Leary
  • High
  • Green
  • Christmas

• Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Cool
  • Mountain

• If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Attention

• I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Animal

• I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Lion