Ani DiFranco Quotes
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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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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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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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Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.
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He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
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It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.
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My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
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1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.
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I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems
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NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.
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Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
