Bonnie Raitt Quotes
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.Bonnie Raitt
Quotes to Explore
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
Harold Ross -
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Abraham Cahan -
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara -
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz -
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Orlando Bloom -
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Nathalie Kelley
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
Rachel Swirsky -
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Majora Carter -
The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel -
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
T. J. Perkins -
I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
Jacki Weaver -
Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
Patrick Kane -
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler -
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
Oprah Winfrey
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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy -
Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.
Barack Obama -
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
N. T. Wright -
In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
William Powell -
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
Bonnie Raitt