Ani DiFranco Quotes
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
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Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say.
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When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I am writing graffiti on your body.I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
