Michael Franti Quotes
I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
Michael Franti
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
Hanna Rosin
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
Jack Ramsay
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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Work is what saves you.
Carlos Fuentes
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
Ted Yoho
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
Jackie Chan
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
Zara Larsson
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
Tammin Sursok
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
Cara Buono
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
Rajiv Ouseph
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
Charlotte Whitton
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I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
Ann Powers
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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
Freya Stark
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Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.
Barbara Holland
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I try to create an image to suit my music. These days, you have to create your own personal brand as an artist. It's not about just putting music out any more unfortunately.
Nina Nesbitt
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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
Michael Franti
