Michael Peter Balzary (Flea) Quotes

Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace

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• Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Real
  • Free

• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Negative

• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Characters

• Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Amazing
  • Feel
  • Retirement

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • May
  • Health

• I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

  

  Manika
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Hard

• One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Book
  • Know
  • Now

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Over

• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
  • Free
  • Reading

• I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Firsts

• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
  • Take
  • Lessons

• Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport - not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.

  

  John Branch
  • Chaos

• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

  

  Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace
  • Chaos
  • Take
  • Worth