Ani DiFranco Quotes

She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'

Ani DiFranco

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I want to make a name for myself.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Name

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Mad

• When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

  

  Zachary Wayne Farro
  • Die
  • Birthday

• I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Waiting
  • Princess

• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Alcohol
  • I Wish

• She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • She
  • Girl
  • Waiting