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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We want to avoid creating this sort of inevitability that it's an all-or-nothing proposition that leads us down the path of a dead-end street. This package really does reflect, I believe, the more cautionary approach.
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.
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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.
