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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?
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I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.
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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
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Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?
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First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.
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Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.
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I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
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I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.
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Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
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i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right
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If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.
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What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.
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But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem
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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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Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.
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I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.
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fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows
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I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
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I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.
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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
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