Bonnie Raitt Quotes
People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.
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For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
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People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.
