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 wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
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Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.
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We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.
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Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
