Ani DiFranco Quotes
And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can.But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan,She tells herself.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
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I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
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American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.
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And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can.But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan,She tells herself.
