Michael Franti Quotes

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

Michael Franti

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GoodMusicSleepMeFeel GoodFeet

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

Andrea Arnold

TimeStartFeelFirst TimeFirst

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

John Oliver

DailyMeTryingAuthorityActorUp

Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.

John M. Grunsfeld

AmazingMeSmallCountryNASATiny

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Tom Scholz

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I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

Russ Feingold

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I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

Loretta Sanchez

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I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Loretta Young

ThinkingWantContributionDespair

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

Claire Denis

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The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

Bob Diamond

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I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.

Art Modell

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I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.

Seth Gordon

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You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

Richard Grant

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