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 keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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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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I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.
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I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
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Love sets fire to your schedule,And then calls an end to time.
