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

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• 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

• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Best
  • Company
  • Longevity

• 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

• To learn something new every day is still exciting!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Day
  • Learn
  • Everyday

• 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

• Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • School

• I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me.

  

  Royston Drenthe
  • Family
  • House
  • Nice

• When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • She
  • Fun

• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • Decline
  • Completion

• So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Job

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

  

  Bonnie Raitt