Bonnie Raitt Quotes

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

Bonnie Raitt

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Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Jim Davis

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Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

Robert Harris

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Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

PeopleThinkNewsKindAlwaysUp

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

John Selden

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The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

Tom Jones

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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Martin Puryear

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Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Michael Sims

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We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.

Miranda July

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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau

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Music is a great part of my life. It helps me relax and keep calm whenever I am not boxing.

Joseph Parker

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Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Jonathan Nolan

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