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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I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.
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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
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I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.
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A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
