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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I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.
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The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place against that backdrop, showing different aspects of it. The stories, however, are not sequels or intertwined, though there are some Easter Eggs across books.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.
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We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!
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Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
