Ted Turner Quotes
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
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We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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I - you know, I'm not an actor.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
