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Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

Frank Ocean

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
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Afraid Fear Human Nature Merit Necessary People
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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Acceptance Hard Work Past Poor Story
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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Focus People Story
Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
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Attitude Consusion Depend Personality
I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.
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Life Secret
I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
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Business Content Creative Diminish Provide
I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
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Art Enjoyment Involvement People Sing Song Stupidity
I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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Director Film
The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
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Cool Fame Internet
I’m big on what’s in good taste.
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Big Good Taste Taste
I’m about being the best.
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Be Yourself One Liner Positive Self Love
Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
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Break Up Broken Heart Feeling Give Up Sad Sorry
Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.
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Deep Hate Love Remember Yourself
Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.
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Famous Fascinated Work
I’ve been thinking about forever.
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Forever One Liner Thinking
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.
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Book Growth Idle Inspirational Intention Productive Progress Solid
I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.
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Journalist Practice Trust
When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.
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Enjoyment Happiness Lyrics Music Understand
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio.
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Life Radio Season Sing Start
I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
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Afraid Fear Merit People Subject Touch
It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
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Area Interesting Superior
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
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Motivational Noise Silence Success Work Hard
Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.
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Distance Let Go Relationship Worth
I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
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Enjoyment Piano Play
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
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Artist Myself Thinking
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.
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Alive Challenge Easy Hard Time Immortal Path Period Possible Reward Time
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
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Communication Feeling Radio Sing Talk Tune Writing

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