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 like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.

  

  Chrisette Michele Payne

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • People
  • Dog
  • Lion

• There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Wife

• The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Protect
  • Lion
  • Traps

• 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