Ted Turner Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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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.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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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.
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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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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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'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.
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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.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
