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There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.
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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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Change the narrative, change the laws.
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Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.
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The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.
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Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
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The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.
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If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.
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I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
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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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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
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I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.
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I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.
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It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.
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Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.
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I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.
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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.
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TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.
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[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.
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