Ani DiFranco Quotes
Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
