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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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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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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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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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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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so... The more I can, the better.
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When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'
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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.
