Ani DiFranco quotes - page 4

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate. (Ani DiFranco)
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it. View quote
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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real. View quote
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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't. View quote
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fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows. View quote
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I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes. View quote
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If more people were screamin', I could relax. View quote
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... I try to laugh at whatever life brings... View quote
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and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time. View quote
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But what if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if there's no time to lose? What if there's things we gotta do, Things that need to be said? View quote
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I am looking for the holes, The holes in your jeans Because I want to know: Are they worn out in the seat, Or are they worn out in the knees? (Ani DiFranco)
I remember now how our bright spring green deepened. With the years the seasons changed, And we were lush as the underside of August. View quote
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times. View quote
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And we hold these truths to be self-evident: Number one-- George W. Bush is not president. Number two-- America is not a true democracy. And, Number three-- the media is not fooling me. View quote
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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. View quote
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Girl, next time he wants to know What your problem is Next time he wants to know Where the anger comes from Just tell him this time the problem's his Tell him the anger just comes It just comes. View quote
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They put you in your place, and they tell you to behave But no one can be free until we're all on even grade. View quote
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I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now. View quote
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When we patch things up, They say a job well done. But when we ask the question why Where did the rips come from?, They say we are subversive, And extreme, of course. We are just trying to track a problem to its source. View quote
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So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent. And it broke in three places when it finally went. It wanted only to say what it meant. So it suffered every punishment. View quote
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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. (Ani DiFranco)
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. View quote
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If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less. View quote
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I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long. View quote
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I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement. View quote
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