Michael Franti Quotes

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

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• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Golf
  • Shoes
  • Point

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Age
  • Restaurant

• Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • English
  • Sea
  • Island

• Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Treasure

• I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • American
  • Career

• Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Hair
  • Trump
  • Make

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • Law

• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• The spectacular view always made Laing aware of his ambivalent feelings for this concrete landscape. Part of its appeal lay all too clearly in the fact that this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Environment

• You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

  

  Matt Bomer

• Physical development fosters learning.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Learning

• I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.

  

  Autumn Reeser

• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Disney

• I really do believe when you're in a ton of pain, you tend to take it out on other people. If you deal with your stuff, you don't take it out on everybody else.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pain

• When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

  

  Michael Franti
  • People
  • Changes
  • Little