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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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 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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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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Quitting is never an option.
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I love San Francisco!
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
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I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
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Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
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As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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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.
