Ted Turner Quotes

I wanted to better inform the world.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Country
  • Corruption
  • Morals

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Abundance

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• 'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Control
  • Older
  • Freak

• Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Financial
  • More
  • Accountants

• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Body
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Me
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • School
  • Attention
  • Always

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Lost

• I wanted to better inform the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Better
  • Wanted