Frank Ocean Quotes
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
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It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not simply from the malevolence of others in the struggle for place or portion, but also from the fact that men of the best will in the world seem to suffer incurably, so far as one can tell, from what William Jame called "a certain blindness" in perceiving the vitalities of others.
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My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
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Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
