Tina Turner Quotes
I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life
