Michael Franti Quotes

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Michael Franti

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I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Andrew Breitbart

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With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Matt Stone

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My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

Matthew McConaughey

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They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

Steve Lacy

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I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

Sophie Kinsella

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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

Roy Lichtenstein

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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes

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After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

Lou Gramm

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Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

Denis McDonough

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When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

Debra Granik

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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Bruce Davison

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When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

Thomas Hauser

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