Ani DiFranco Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.
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Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.
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Love sets fire to your schedule,And then calls an end to time.
