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All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
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We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
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