Bonnie Raitt Quotes

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Bonnie Raitt

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• Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Name

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Fighting
  • Religious
  • Competition

• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Young
  • Little
  • Hippie

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Done
  • True
  • Think

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Body
  • Blood
  • Say

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • People

• Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Country
  • Eyes
  • Serious

• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Men
  • Free
  • Feeling

• The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Money
  • Small

• Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Sun