Rita Coolidge Quotes

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Rita Coolidge

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• Knocks
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• Burglar

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• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  

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• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

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• I have no family to take care of.

  

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• It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

  

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• People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

  

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• The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

  

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• I am definitely trying not to take films that are mostly about dude problems, not because I don't think they're worthy problems, but there are a lot of people who will take those.

  

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• When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.

  

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• It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

  

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• It ain't nothin' till I call it.

  

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• What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

  

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• I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

  

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• Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

  

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• It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

  

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• I thank God every day for my family.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
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• Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

  

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• People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead.

  

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• Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

  

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• Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.

  

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• It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.

  

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• Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

  

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Opportunity
  • Knocks
  • Alarm