Frank Ocean Quotes
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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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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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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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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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
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Isolated incidents have lateral, lasting implications.
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I always try and give a good example to children who follow me.
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The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
