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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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!
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As a scientist, the starting point is always the facts of the matter, whereas often, in politics, the starting point is how does this play in the next election.
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I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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Love sets fire to your schedule,And then calls an end to time.
