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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.
Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.
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The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.
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Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling.
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I can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in.
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Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.
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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
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