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.
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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.'
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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I need instant gratification.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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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.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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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.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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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.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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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.
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So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
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To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
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There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
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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.
