Ani DiFranco Quotes
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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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.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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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!
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I was really a shy kid.
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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.
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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.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.
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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?
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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.
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I have a save file in 'Final Fantasy XII' that is 125 hours long. I have gotten into legitimate arguments over the rules governing the tapping of mana in 'Magic: The Gathering.' I don't like hugs or parties, high school sucked for me, and Nathan Fillion deemed something I wrote his 'Favorite 'Firefly' fanboy rant to date.'
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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You can feel the fans almost breathing down your neck when you're in the on-deck circle. And whatever they have to say, they will say it to you. They won't hold back.
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Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
