Ike Turner Quotes
I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.
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I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
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You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
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I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
