John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.
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Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
