Bonnie Raitt Quotes
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.
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As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.
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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
