Bonnie Raitt Quotes

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

Bonnie Raitt

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Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

Meghan Markle

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A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.

Megyn Price

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Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Michael Haneke

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul

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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

John Williams

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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

America Ferrera

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If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

Spike Jonze

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Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.

Sid Waddell

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Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

Troy Carter

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I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

Tony Evans

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From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.

Marvin Ammori

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My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

Christie Brinkley

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