Bonnie Raitt Quotes

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

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• I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

  

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• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

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• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

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• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

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• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

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• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

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• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  

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• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  

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• I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

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• My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

  

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• I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.

  

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• I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.

  

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• You can hold your Bitcoin in Ripple. We want to be agnostic to any currency, whether that be a virtual currency, political currencies, or peer-to-peer currencies.

  

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• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

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• There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
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  • Mind