Michael Franti Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.
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Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
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I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.
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It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.
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All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
