Ted Turner Quotes
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
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If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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The mind is just another muscle.
