Ani DiFranco Quotes
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
-
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
-
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
-
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
-
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
-
I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
-
I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
-
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
-
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
-
You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
-
The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
-
I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
-
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
-
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
-
My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
-
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
-
I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
-
I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
-
I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.
-
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
-
Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.
-
When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.
-
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
