Kathleen Turner Quotes

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Kathleen Turner

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• Kids
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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
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• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
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• When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
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• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
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• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
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• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Father
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• I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Myself
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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
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• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
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• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
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• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
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• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

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• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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• And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Arms
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• Social peace requires reciprocity.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Peace
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  • Requires

• Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • World
  • Mind
  • Children

• Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Funny

• We're going to respond to the Gulf within 72 hours. After a disaster, if you can get people rescued within 72 hours; they are far better off as far as getting them rescued without additional injury or illness or loss of life.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Disaster
  • Illness
  • Injury

• What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • God
  • Children
  • Kids