Ted Turner Quotes
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Quotes to Explore
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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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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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.
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My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
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To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
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If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
