Ted Turner Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?
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My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
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...The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos 'Friendchips' TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done).
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From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
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I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
