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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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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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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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
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I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.
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Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.
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Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.
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There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.
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The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.
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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
