2009 Boomer Hots 141-160

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Boomer Hots 141 – 150

Nancy Grace    October 23, 1959  49	“I don’t expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.”
Our Why:	Funny, cute, honest, and calls it as she sees it!  We love that she’s not PC.
Reggie Jackson May 18, 1946 63	“I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don’t care.”
Our Why:	Incredible athlete, great role model, hard worker, icon.
Nancy Jane Meyers December 8, 1949 59	“Write what you know. Not everybody has your experience.”
Our Why:	Fabulous award winning screen writer who has given us many hours of entertainment.
Robert Jarvik May 11, 1946  63	“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.”
Our Why:	He touches our hearts.
Nancy WilsonMarch 16, 1954  55	“I’ve been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It’s a healing thing, and it’s a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing. I like my job. I’ll work my butt off to do something well.”
Our Why:	Not only does she bring home the bacon, sings, and plays a guitar that can bring tears to your eyes and rock to your body.
Roger Clemens August 4, 1962  47	“Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It’s not anger, it’s motivation.”
Our Why:	He will never strike-out with us, as a matter of fact, he wears a triple crown.
Natalie Cole February 6, 1950	“I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman… and that really screws you up.”
Our Why:	Brave, beautiful, lived up to a legacy, and showed us how to clean up and come out fresh.
Ron HowardMarch 1, 1954   55	“One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.”
Our Why:	He’ll forever be Opie in our hearts and Apollo in our minds because he has a beautiful mind.
Pam Grier May 26, 1949  60	“As long as my arms and legs are working, as long as I have my sense of sight and sound, as long as I can just breathe, then that’s beautiful.”
Our Why:	She is one foxy lady we love.
Ron Perlman April 13, 1950  59	“I’ll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it’s right, is the coolest art form ever invented.”
Our Why:	Okay, have you seen Sons of Anarchy?  Nough said.

 

Boomer Hots 151 – 160

Pat BenatarJanuary 10, 1953   56	“Most chick singers say ‘if you hurt me, I’ll die.’ I say, ‘if you hurt me, I’ll kick your ass.'”
Our Why:	Well, she hit us with her best shot and had us hooked right away.
Rudy GiulianiMay 28, 1944   65	“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”
Our Why:	He walked us through 9/11 with grace, hope, and insight. He also was inspirational in handling prostate cancer with grace and hope.
Patti SmithDecember 20, 1946  63	“First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60’s is really a survivor.”
Our Why:	Godmother of Punk.
Rush Limbaugh January 12, 1951   58	“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.” “You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
Our Why:	He is the most listened to radio host for the last 18 years.  Wow.
Paula AbdulJune 19, 1962   47	“Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.”
Our Why:	She is currently regarded as the best free agent around–not bad for former singer/choreographer.
Samuel L Jackson December 21, 1948 61	“I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say ‘Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.”
Our Why:	Kudos for the courage to clean up, we are glad he did, we would miss him terribly.
Pia Mellody	“You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.”
Our Why:	Ground breaking work in freeing one from the bondage of enabling and lack of self-care.
Scott AdamsSeptember 28, 1966  42	“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Our Why:	Our lives are much funnier because of The Dilbert Principle.
Rhae Ann TheriaultAugust 1, 1961   48	“We can all use a little laughter and joy each day. I think it’s important to Playand helps lighten the load of the hard work we must do.”
Our Why:	She danced her way into our hearts.
SealFebruary 19, 1963  46	“You have to work out why you feel so undeserving, you have to start healing and you have to start saying to yourself, OK, I am worth it, I do deserve this.”
Our Why:	Can you imagine life without A Kiss from a Rose?  It would be very sad.
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