John Frusciante Quotes
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.
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I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.
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Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.
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United States forces have always relied on local allies to accomplish military and diplomatic missions and will need this support in the future. But why would anyone agree to help the United States if we have a record of breaking our promises and abandoning those who assist us?
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I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
