John Frusciante Quotes
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
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I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple.
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This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
