Bonnie Raitt Quotes
I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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I try to keep a low profile.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
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A book brings its own history to the reader.
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That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.
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The sooner the Iraqi people are able to take their country's destiny in their own hands and establish their own control over it and its national resources, the sooner the process of pushing the forces of international terrorism out of Iraq will be able to begin. And the sooner the process of consolidating Iraqi society itself will also be able to begin.
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I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell.
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Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.
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I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.
