Ani DiFranco Quotes
Because I know the biggest crimeIs just to throw up your handsAnd say 'This has nothing to do with me,I just want to live as comfortably as I can.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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Because I know the biggest crimeIs just to throw up your handsAnd say 'This has nothing to do with me,I just want to live as comfortably as I can.
