Ted Turner Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
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I fear very much that, in fact, government of the people, by the people and for the people is beginning to perish in America.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
