Bonnie Raitt Quotes

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

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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

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• 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
  • Help
  • Happy
  • 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

• Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.

  

  George Gilder
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Sacrifice

• Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Step
  • Maturity
  • Self-knowledge

• Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Common

• You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

  

  Brandon Heath Knell
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Song

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

  

  Bonnie Raitt