John Raitt Quotes
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.
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Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
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You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.
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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
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I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.
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I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
