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Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Burbank
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Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.
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You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.
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I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.
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The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.
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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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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
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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 just want to be as good a person as I can be.
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Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that Ive had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.
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Life is simple yet complex, in the complexity we realize everything is simple for we create our own happiness, our own sadness & our own destiny by not making a choice you have chosen so face life with courage and faith in yourself.
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Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.
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It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.
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I can't make you love me, if you don't.
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One of the things that I'm glad about, though, is that regular people can relate to me.
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The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.
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It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.
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