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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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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 don’t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
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I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.'
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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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.
