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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There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
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One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
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What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.
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Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.
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It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
