Tina Turner Quotes

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

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• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Imagine

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• No two wars are identical.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Two
  • Wars
  • Identical

• I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Try
  • Sunday

• I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Single
  • Couple

• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Retirement
  • Bear

• I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Accepting

• I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Brain

• I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Winning

• Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Mistake

• I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Life
  • Why
  • Cat

• My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I love romantic comedies.

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Romantic

• Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Desire
  • Simple
  • Evil

• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

  

  Max Muller
  • House
  • Church

• Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

  

  Tina Turner
  • People
  • Shock
  • Delhi