Ani DiFranco Quotes
I am looking for the holes,The holes in your jeansBecause I want to know:Are they worn out in the seat,Or are they worn out in the knees?
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's so many areas where you can go in and enjoy, but I just like meeting new people.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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I am. I was. I am not. I never am.
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At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured.
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The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
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I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
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I am looking for the holes,The holes in your jeansBecause I want to know:Are they worn out in the seat,Or are they worn out in the knees?
