Ani DiFranco Quotes

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

Ani DiFranco

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I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

Jerry Hall

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You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

Stephen Daldry

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Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

Simon Mainwaring

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If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Rodney Brooks

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When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.

Ron Paul

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To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Russell M. Nelson

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God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

Martin O'Malley

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As a British rider, it's a privilege to be able to compete on home roads. The British public have really taken to cycling, and you can see that when the race goes through different towns: the community really gets behind it.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

Dolores O'Riordan

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To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

Donald McKay

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I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right - I'm not a vegetarian.

Chuck Berry

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To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

Anna Wood

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