Michael Franti Quotes

I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

Michael Franti

Recitation: by Male by Female

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MusicMyselfHappyPeopleFeelFind

If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.

Jeanne Shaheen

FutureLosePresidentDefendAttack

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Johnny Carson

PeopleYouBackSometimesSayWell

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Robert Benchley

ManFeelStreetNothingBandOut

I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion.

Mike Yaconelli

LifeHeartReligionI AmMeMy Life

How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.

Mikko Hypponen

FortuneHowManyHacked

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

Miranda Hart

TeacherBeginningSorryEndLesson

We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

Jay Parini

LifeFreedomReligionColorsValues

I have songs that sound like this and songs that sound like that. I think it's just my vocal that keeps it all together.

Joshua Ostrander

TogetherThinkSoundJustSongs

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Dick Cheney

MotherForcesConductingIraqi

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

William Pollard

LeadershipOpportunityResponsibility

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

HistoryMemoryInterestRather

I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.

Serj Tankian

MusicMindFreeWriteProject

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