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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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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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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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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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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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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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.
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In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
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In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
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I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.
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When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!
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I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
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You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
