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 don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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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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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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So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.
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Sparrow: If you'd get a vasectomy, we wouldn't have to go through this every time.Stuart: But... but you know I want to have a baby eventually.Sparrow: So make some deposits at a sperm bank first. Then we can inseminate like normal people when we're ready.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'
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Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.
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I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.
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'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
