Ani DiFranco Quotes
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
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Abortion is a searing and divisive public policy issue precisely because two significant sets of rights are in conflict, and no matter which set of laws it enacts, society must choose between those rights.
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What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
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'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.
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Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.
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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
