Raitt Band Quotes

#1. Your work speaks for you.

Rands

#2. You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Marguerite Duras

#3. Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

Chapman Cohen

#4. We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

Terence McKenna

#5. Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

Gertrude Atherton

#6. To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring.

Kerry Washington

#7. The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

James Madison

#8. A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

#9. Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.

Gregory David Roberts

#10. Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

Bonnie Raitt

#11. The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

Bonnie Raitt

#12. The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

Jose Ferreira

#13. One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.

Jeremy Heimans