John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
Quotes to Explore
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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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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I'm a real optimist.
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My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.
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The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.
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It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!
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The world around me is a tuxedo, and I'm a pair of brown shoes.
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Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
