Ani DiFranco Quotes
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
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You neglect and belittle the desert. The desert is not remote in southern tropics The desert is not only around the corner, The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you, The desert is in the heart of your brother.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.
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One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.
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Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
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I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.
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I still define myself by the places that I've been.
