Tina Turner Quotes

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

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• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Greatest
  • Winner
  • Seen

• The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Know
  • Play
  • Piano

• I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • House
  • Parents
  • Years

• Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Man
  • End
  • Selfish

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• 'Vanitas vanitatum' has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

  

  Vanity
  • Simple

• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • People
  • Health
  • Wise

• If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Women

• The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Hand

• Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • Different
  • Pretty

• Trust in yourself.

  

  Claudia Black
  • Trust

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I don't mind playing or watching a movie or sitting down.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Mind
  • Movie

• Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

  

  Tina Turner
  • Movie