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.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Career
  • Been
  • Focused

• 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.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Peace

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• 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.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Red

• Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Bad
  • City
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Air

• There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time
  • Different
  • Church

• I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Movie

• I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Father

• In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • College
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Work
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