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 enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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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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Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.
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Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.
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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
