Ted Turner Quotes
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.
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FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.
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I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
