Bonnie Raitt Quotes
I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
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It's hard to get people up and out to shows, but 'The Walworth Farce' has masses of energy and will attract a crowd who don't always come to the theatre, which is great.
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We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
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I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.
