Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.

Bonnie Raitt

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My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

Angela Rye

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I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

Amy Purdy

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My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

Sonya Walger

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There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.

Travis Scott

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I don't respect phoniness.

Ron Johnson

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In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Ludwig Quidde

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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Demi Lovato

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I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

Bob McNair

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Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.

Brian Ortega

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I have always felt that just to show love, you don't have to make two people do intimate scenes. That is not the idea of 'I love you.'

Ali Fazal

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I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.

Thundercat

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