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

• I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Real
  • Love
  • Professional

• 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

• For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Poetry
  • Painting
  • Everyday

• We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

  

  John Winthrop
  • Work
  • Together
  • Community

• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Heart
  • Happiness

• The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God

• I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Guy

• 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