Bonnie Raitt quotes

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

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Quotes by Aaron Copland

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

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Famous quote by Yasmine Bleeth

This is my ultimate fantasy: Watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

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Famous quote by Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

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Shirley MacLaine quotes

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

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Top 5 quotes by Sachin Tendulkar

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

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Roseanne Barr quotes

When my Husband comes home, if the kids are still alive, I figure I've done my job.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

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Famous quote by Richard E. Byrd

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

The best quote by Arundhati Roy

Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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Quote by Ahad HaAm

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

My favorite quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

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David Hackworth quotes

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

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Frank Lampard quotes

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

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Rick Santorum quotes

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

Billy Tauzin quotes

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Steve Allen quotations

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

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Famous quote by Randy Jackson

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Molly Parker quotes

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

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Top 5 quotes by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

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Nice quote by James Cook

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

Quotes by Will Oldham

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

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