Nikki Turner Quotes

The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.

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• Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Car

• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Me
  • Training
  • Providence

• Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Small
  • Star

• Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Life
  • Television
  • Being

• I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Dad
  • City

• I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Never
  • Meditation

• I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Better
  • Gym
  • Eating

• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Birthday
  • Celebrate

• What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Success

• I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Relationship

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Fence

• If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Smelling
  • Splurge

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Mirror

• Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Film

• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Good
  • God
  • Important

• The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Anxiety

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.

  

  Nikki Turner
  • Old
  • Prison
  • Cemetery