Tina Turner Quotes
The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
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When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.
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A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
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Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
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I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.
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The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.
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Quitting is never an option.
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I don't think malls are going to go away. People still need somewhere to go, but they do have to evolve.
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The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.
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One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.
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I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
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My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
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The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.
