Michael Franti Quotes

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

Michael Franti

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I can't take anything seriously.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Anything
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Alone

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Bus
  • Foreman
  • Grill

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Active
  • Percent

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Issues
  • Lefty

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Sense
  • Wrong
  • Often

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ego

• The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Want
  • Ethics

• For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Life
  • Poison
  • Dread

• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

  

  Michael Franti
  • Life
  • God
  • Decision