Ike Turner Quotes
They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Life is like an analogy.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.
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I was never a good fundraiser.
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
