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.Ani DiFranco
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron -
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.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Gary Hume -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
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.
Laura Dern -
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.
Ed Markey
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I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss -
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.
Mara Wilson -
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci -
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Xavier Becerra -
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.
Jack Dangermond
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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.
Edna Ferber -
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Mallory Ortberg -
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.'
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
V. S. Naipaul -
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
Katherine Paterson -
Ah, there is no city that gives off so much noise and such a clamor as Naples.
Elena Ferrante -
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
Andy Dunn -
My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
Chris Milk -
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.
Ani DiFranco