Ike Turner Quotes
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
-
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
-
I can't take anything seriously.
-
I need instant gratification.
-
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
-
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
-
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
-
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
-
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
-
I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
-
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
-
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
-
I'm not real. I'm theatre.
-
I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
-
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature.
-
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
-
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
