Tina Turner Quotes
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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I speak the language of television.
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.
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This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.
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I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.
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There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
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Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.
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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.
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I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.
