Ted Turner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
-
I am always locked in my design studio.
-
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
-
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
-
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
-
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
-
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
-
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
-
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
-
If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
-
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
-
That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
-
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
-
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
-
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
-
I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
-
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
-
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
-
There is a lot of wisdom in selling off some subscribers because it just eases that regulatory question. This hastens the time when there is real competition in local phone.
-
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!
-
When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
-
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
-
We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.
-
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
