Ani DiFranco Quotes
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspirationAgainst this slow deflationYeah the further the horizonThe more it holds my gazeThe foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phaseJust a phase.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I'm not graceful.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspirationAgainst this slow deflationYeah the further the horizonThe more it holds my gazeThe foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phaseJust a phase.
