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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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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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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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
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I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
