John Frusciante Quotes
Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
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Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
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Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
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Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
