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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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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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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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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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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Life is God's art.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
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Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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For me, there's one film at a time, and my only benchmark is that my current film should be better than my last one, and I've made sure of that. If you Google the trailer of my first film - which I request you not to - you'll see the vast change in my approach towards my profession and the slow gain of maturity in performing.
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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.
