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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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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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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I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.
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Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.
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On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.
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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.
