Ani DiFranco Quotes
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
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We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
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I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.
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Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
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Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
