Bonnie Raitt Quotes

What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.

Bonnie Raitt

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• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Lose
  • Step
  • First Step

• Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Resistance

• We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• I love America a lot. I really do.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • America
  • Really

• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Live
  • Innovation
  • Ancestors

• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Perspective

• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Woman
  • Prayer

• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • World
  • Find
  • Excited

• Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Work
  • School
  • Risk

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Running

• In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • May
  • Culture

• A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Book
  • Car
  • Police

• They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Jesus

• Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Work
  • Important
  • Me

• To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in 'search mode,' you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Girl
  • Search

• I hated school, and dropped out of college. I got picked on a lot in school, and had a lot of trouble making friends.

  

  Bram Cohen
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  

  Pete Stark
  • War
  • City
  • Smart

• We still have to see if the FDA will follow this recommendation, but the signs from the meeting are positive.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Follow
  • FDA
  • Recommendation

• What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.

  

  Bonnie Raitt