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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Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.
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I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
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Love sets fire to your schedule,And then calls an end to time.
