Tina Turner Quotes
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
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I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
