Ted Turner Quotes
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
Quotes to Explore
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
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I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
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When it comes down to business, everybody is very businesslike... I have never felt any difficulty in dealing with any of these situations.
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If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
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Every little interaction I had with Scorsese is forever tattooed on my brain.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
