Tina Turner Quotes
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
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Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
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I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.
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The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.
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I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as dark as I am - I want to be a little fairer.' I didn't want to be me.
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I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.
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So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.
