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Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
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A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
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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.
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Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.
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The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
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I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.
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I used to be a superhero no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.
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Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.
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Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.
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I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.
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What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.
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When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.
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One thing that Barack Obama promised, one thing that we all know we must do is evolve our industry and our technology to being green and sustainable. We need to move away from fossil fuels and nuclear power, both of which I think spell doom for human society.
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You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
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spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know
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i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right
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I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the f-word. A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.
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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
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And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.
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