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Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

Bonnie Raitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Revolution Look Blues Over Singer

Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

Jim Crace

Progress Me Book Muse Presence

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

Jo Brand

Fat Trying Person Run Marathon Than

I'm wondering whether to have someone go around with my mobile to completely throw everybody off the scent. I could appear in weird places.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Weird Someone Go Places Scent Off

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

John Kricfalusi

Humor Money You Run Why Complaining

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

Steve Forbes

Day People Think End Of The Day End

If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner.

Steve Truglia

Mistake Gambling Lose Sometimes Will

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Jose Rizal

Freedom Routine Down Dangerous Press

All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.

Jonathan Zittrain

Present Search Help Information Find

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

Brandon Routh

Amazing Me Green Flying Moments

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Bob Inglis

Change Good Death You Climate Change

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Antonin Scalia

Power Together War Stop Washington

I have a doughnut every morning. The same kind, from a street cart. Vanilla frosted with sprinkles on one half, weirdly. How hard is it to sprinkle the whole thing?

Allison Williams

Morning Kind Street Hard Same Half