Ani DiFranco Quotes

And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.

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• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Want
  • Garden

• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • People
  • Important
  • Care

• My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Never
  • Boxing

• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Me
  • Worries
  • Professionalism

• The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Community
  • Israel
  • Conquer

• Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Done
  • Me
  • Television

• In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Job
  • Military

• It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Real
  • Home
  • Think

• I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Different
  • Brain

• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  

  Marie Curie
  • People

• Never, never try to scope the market.

  

  Dean Koontz

• I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Pretty

• I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.

  

  Burnie Burns

• American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.

  

  Andrei Soldatov
  • Enemy
  • Election
  • Protests

• Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Rich
  • Beggar
  • Conceited

• Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had to fight to keep.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Country
  • Taken
  • Violence

• And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.

  

  Ani DiFranco