Ani DiFranco Quotes
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.
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Welcome. Come on in to me world.
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There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.
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Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!'
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Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.
