"I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships."

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Bonnie Raitt

#Thinking Quotes #Squash Quotes #Trying Quotes

“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”
“The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.”
“Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.”
“We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.”
“I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.”
“The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.”
“I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.”
“I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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