John Frusciante Quotes
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
