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Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 8, 1949

Topics

Family Me Political Los Angeles Up

You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how do you do that?

People Story You Want Write Same

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

Heart Death People Pressure Blood

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Democracy You Done Improving See

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women American Sex Class Race Same

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Beauty Power Wit Up Give Would

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

Process Ice First Everything Through

We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.

Character Feelings Always Show Our

To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.

Colin Kaepernick

Time People Me Game Feel You

You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.

Dinner Fashion Week You Parade Wear

I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.

Father Legal Lawyers Judges Kid See

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Time Justice World Friday You Ask

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

William Prescott

Name Peru Known Natives

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