Michael Franti Quotes
You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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To survive is to win.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
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There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.
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We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
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I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.
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You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
