Bonnie Raitt Quotes

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Bonnie Raitt

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MusicGreatMeBetterPolitical

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

John Elway

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I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

Snoop Dogg

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The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

Tom Waits

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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Mary Douglas

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The way forward for Africa is investment.

Mo Ibrahim

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There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

David Sze

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

PoetrySeriousReasonUsCannot

When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.

Wolfgang Ketterle

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus

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I think everybody goes through times where they're vulnerable and then times where you're confident and cocky.

Syd

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South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'

Sydney Pollack

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