Michael Franks Quotes
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
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I just want to compete and do what I love.
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From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.
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The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.
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Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul
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None of The Human League have any orthodox musical training, but prefer to regard compositions as an extension of logic, inspiration and luck. Therefore, unlike conventional musicians, their influences are not so obvious.
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
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I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.
