Michael Franti Quotes

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

Michael Franti

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FightParentsMeHurtYouSaid

Characters have to make sacrifices. To really, really feel the true emotion and the hero's journey, they have to go through trials, and those trials could cost them something.

Joe Russo

JourneyHeroFeelGoTrueTrials

I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.

Joe Barton

ManBelieveThinkLongEarthBeen

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

Joe Green

AmbitionThinkYouFaultWhatever

Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

Jerry West

PeopleMeBattleYouLookDream

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

John Abizaid

BelieveSuicideStateIran

'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.

John Fusco

HorseSoundCallThunderGalloping

The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.

Michael Hayden

YouChoiceSecurityPrivacyWant

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.

Stockwell Day

ChangeThinkingHandsLongChanges

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.

Roger McGuinn

MusicListeningHonorClothesTrying

I am most supportive of organizations whose goal is to increase the living situation of those less fortunate than myself.

Rosanna Pansino

MyselfI AmGoalSituationLiving

Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

Ruth Rendell

CharacterWritingToughStartedCop

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

Mike Krzyzewski

YourselfHonorYouLookSaidHigh

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