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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Opinion
  • Bible
  • Journalism

• I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • God
  • Soul
  • Fire

• I'm going to the gym six days a week. I'm eating right. Well-balanced diet. I drink a juice smoothie every morning.

  

  Chumlee
  • Morning
  • Gym

• I don't watch a lot of television.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Television
  • Watch
  • Lot

• To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

  

  Anodea Judith
  • Body
  • Connection
  • Lose

• To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

  

  George Stanley
  • World
  • Soldier
  • Capacity

• 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