Ani DiFranco Quotes
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.Ani DiFranco
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
Calvin Johnson -
The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
Gary Valentine -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern -
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
Zac Brown Band -
If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
I think it's important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas -
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
Fede Alvarez -
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
Aaron Lazar -
I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
Laura Z. Hobson
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The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.
Matthew Williamson -
It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.
Jimmi Simpson -
A dream, a dream, - it is all a dream, A strange, sad dream, good sooth; For old as I am, and old as I seem, My heart is full of youth.
Martin Farquhar Tupper -
You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.
William Griffith Wilson -
I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.
James Branch Cabell -
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
Ani DiFranco