Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'
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I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.
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It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
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Chic is a combination of style and fashion.
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
