Lana Turner Quotes

The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.

Lana Turner

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Character
  • Me
  • Turn

• I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Team

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• I love my country. I love my family.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Country
  • Family
  • Love

• I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Winning

• 'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,'As it hurried down the hill.'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Small

• You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Experience
  • Hand

• What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • People

• Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

  

  Charles Evers
  • People
  • Black

• Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Justice

• The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • War
  • Meaningful
  • Bridge

• I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Silly

• As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Live

• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

  

  William Beebe
  • Attention
  • Water
  • Eye

• No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Word
  • Minds
  • Teachers

• The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.

  

  Lana Turner