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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.
Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
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My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years. I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
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Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, sound barks, not even sound bite
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
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