Ted Turner Quotes
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
