Connor Franta Quotes

Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process.

Connor Franta

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LifeCoffeeDayCreativeThoughts

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

Jeremy Scott

ThinkingCelebrityWorshipSameBeen

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

Jennifer Granholm

InnovationCommunityGovernmentLeft

Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.

John Niven

BookBetterFriendsYouKnowMeet

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Maya Angelou

CommunicationWritingTwoDifferent

It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth.

Rosamund Pike

TruthTimeMenWomanManYou

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michele Bachmann

WorkEconomicsWorldProblemsDebt

There is nothing more special than a love of a child, and I love the fact I am an auntie.

Julia Sawalha

LoveI AmChildNothingSpecialAm

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

Jon Batiste

FamilyMusicTimeCultureMusicians

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

LearningYourselfYouDistanceKnow

I had bedbugs in 2005. I felt like a leper. Worse than a leper. At least lepers had a colony they could go and live in with other people who empathized. I instead had friends stand up from tables and walk out of restaurants when I told them I had bedbugs, because they were afraid I'd transfer the bugs to them.

Chris Gethard

LiveWalkPeopleStand UpStandGo

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

TimePoetryAttentionYouSayTwice

We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.

Cobie Smulders

GoodLiveFreedomPeopleGood People

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