#o

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#need #order #people #real #reassure

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#between #came #circumstance #compelling #equals

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#convenience #defense #eat #entertainment #need

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#clearly #moral #obligations #our #think

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. ↗

— Arlene Francis

#big #friends #our #pass #sieve

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

They taught me different was wrong. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#me #taught #wrong

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. ↗

— Connie Francis

#because #definitely #encouraged #had #hated

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you. ↗

— Dick Francis

#crime #ignore #inconvenient #laws #life

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.' ↗

— Genie Francis

#atlantic #be kind #because #being #britney