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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Every morning during certain seasons of the year, the thrushes and blackbirds on all the lawns throughout the country draw out of their holes an astonishing number of worms; and this they could not do, unless they lay close to the surface.
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I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
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Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
