I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
BONNIE RAITTReligion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
More Bonnie Raitt Quotes
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Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.
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I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It’s as simple as the serenity prayer; it’s a very, very real thing.
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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.
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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
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I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead.
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Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game.
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There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
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I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
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It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
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I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.
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And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
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