Ted Turner Quotes

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

Ted Turner

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• Dying
• Afraid
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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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• 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.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• 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.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Acting

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Trials

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Love
  • Me
  • Boy

• As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Continue

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Success

• I'm not scared of dying, I just don't want to.If I stop lying, I'll just disappoint you.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Stop
  • Dying

• A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Tired

• Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Thinking
  • Vision
  • Mask

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid