Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

Bonnie Raitt

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• I would like to have my gun for protection.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Like
  • Gun
  • Protection

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Political
  • Energy

• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Poetry
  • Special
  • Japanese

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • Law
  • Universe

• There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Family
  • House
  • Interesting

• The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Years

• Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • House
  • Nothing
  • Feet

• Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Team
  • Model
  • Management

• When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Working

• I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

  

  Lee Grant
  • Game
  • Drama

• God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• The individual Siemens businesses must be able to keep up with the specialists in the industry and be at least as good as their strongest competitors.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • Up
  • Good

• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Understanding

• I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

  

  Bonnie Raitt