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Michael Franti Quotes

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Michael Franti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1967

Topics

Change Fear Angry World Think Want

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

John Astin

Positive Me View Feedback Difficult

Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

Melvyn Bragg

Control Curiosity Like

Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.

Matt Haig

Life Learning Hope Children Thinking

Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

Andy Grammer

Great Creativity Fun Doing You Wild

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Michael Bergin

Father Disappointment Powerful Tool

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

Intelligence Independence Mad High

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

Health Best Broken Medical World

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

Joss Whedon

People Story Care Want Always Sure

I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.

Christopher Miller

Love Want Movies Superhero Star

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

Family Good Growing Up Face Uncle

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

Tina Brown

Nature Care Human Chief Asking Ever

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

Tim Holden

World Oil More Years United Here