Ani DiFranco Quotes

Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

Ani DiFranco

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• Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Work
  • Job
  • Career

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Everybody
  • Somebody
  • Anybody

• If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • You
  • Water
  • Cold

• I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Work
  • Career
  • Band

• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Man
  • Powerful
  • Creative

• We all have our own little thing, I think.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Own

• When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Song
  • Knowing

• I was really a shy kid.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Shy

• If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • World
  • Daily

• Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Greed

• They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Tree

• I know it's late, I know you're wearyI know your plans don't include meStill here we are, both of us lonelyLonging for shelter from all that we seeWhy should we worry, no one will care girlLook at the stars so far awayWe've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?We've got tonight babe,Why don't you stay?

  

  Bob Seger
  • Why
  • Worry

• If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Together
  • Powerful
  • Air

• Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Art

• I think of the spam folder not as Pandora's box but as a costume shop in which you can play and play at being whoever and whatever you wish. If only for a time.

  

  James Veitch
  • Time
  • Wish

• Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Important
  • Golf

• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Chemical industry
  • Toxic wastes
  • Nation's environment

• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

  

  Ani DiFranco