Ted Turner Quotes
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.Ted Turner
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall -
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat -
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist -
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
Kate McKinnon
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
Jack Kent Cooke -
Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
Veruschka von Lehndorff -
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
Fedor Emelianenko -
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. Chidambaram -
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
Uma Thurman -
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
Calista Flockhart -
Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
Ilan Stavans
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
Jack Nicklaus -
I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Pawan Kalyan -
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner